Quotes About Optimism

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.

What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty, instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

Prospect is often better than possession.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb.