Quotes About Optimism

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide.

I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist, the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation, but then again, it's not the end of the world.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself, hey, I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute, then it would be a disaster, but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace.

Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account.

Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.

A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it'll turn out that this was good, so I shan't worry about it too much.

Life may be hard, but it's also wonderful.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.