Quotes About Optimism

Optimists have a positive expectancy that helps them achieve their goals. Theirs is a can-do attitude. They take action, which is empowering. Pessimists take a passive attitude. They play the blame game or focus on what they can't do. As a result, pessimists often become victims of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Pervasiveness. Unlike pessimists who let their doubts and troubles affect every area of their lives, optimists are able to put their problems in a "box" and not let them distract them.

It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world.

She was a girl who knew how to be gay, even when she was sad. And that's important — you know?" Parton

When one has no power, one will seek hope from any source.

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.

What could go wrong? I said & she shook her head. I thought you had more imagination than that, she said. —Fertile Imagination

Anyone can slay a dragon ...but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.

Farming is a profession of hope.

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

There must be something better than this world, and the world must be better than this.

Of hope and optimism I have none … because instead I have experience. I know the reception I'll meet with.

I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Life on the big slope was endurable, and sometimes more than just endurable, for the human spirit was a genius for making mountains out of molehills of happiness.

If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.

These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.

There's probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.

Where hope rises fear must lurk behind.

Something great is going to happen today, I can't wait to see what it Is!