Quotes About Optimism

Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

My mother said, "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said, "Just wait."

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.

The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again, Sweet wife. No, never come over again.

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

Cast away care; he that loves sorrow lengthens not a day, nor can he buy tomorrow.

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst."

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

Age 50. — At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

If at first you don't succeed, have a beer.

Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

...and we take everything heartily and naturally in the right way, — for even mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Each negative experience hardens us a little more to life. Some of us are tough as concrete — but try to leave yourself a few cracks, so that flowers can still grow through.