Quotes About Optimism

The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way

One of my clients told me the story of the optimist and the pessimist who were arguing about philosophy. The optimist declares,"This is the best of all possible worlds." The pessimist sighs and says, "You're right.

In a season of increasing tumult in the world . . . , the Spirit promised has produced a sense of optimism about what lies ahead, even as the commotion in the world seems to increase. Henry B. Eyring, "Fear Not to Do Good," Ensign, November 2017

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)

A light heart lives long.

When a man is gloomy, everything seems to go wrong; when he is cheerful, everything seems right!

Years back someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all! Cheerfulness is more palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes . . . we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.

He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

When we can laugh through our tears, we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad, but they cannot be all that bad.

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.

We must always have old memories and young hopes.