Quotes About Optimism

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.

I'm not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I'm having the best time of my life!

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

Finding your life less than perfect is a waste of your time.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Never Say Never if you know you can do what you love don't give up.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

I nominate this song as the "Song for the group" (from the Benefit CD): Chorus from the song "Inside" by Jethro Tull for it's positive mention of "joe": I'm sittin' in the corner feelin' glad, got no money comin' in but I can't be sad, That was the best cuppa coffee I ever had, And I won't worry about a thing because we got it made, here on the Inside outside's so far away.

Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

The world is cruel. It does not have to be ugly.

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

In a study of new hire agents at MetLife, the optimists outsold the pessimists by 31 percent.

All the top sellers I know possess a unique balance of positivity and negativity. They're always optimistic about the ultimate outcomes, but they sometimes seem paranoid about everything that could possibly go wrong. That's why they succeed.

You've done loads of good things, Millie - I'm not quite sure how exactly, but things often go wonderfully right in the end for you