Quotes About Optimism

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things.

People with good intentions never give up!

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

I like the man who faces what he must, With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear.

So get a few laughs and do the best you can.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism, but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

When things come to the worst, they generally mend.

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.