Quotes About Optimism

I am an optimist! What a wonderful time it is to be alive, here at the turn of a milestone century! With that frame of reference, my plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. I am suggesting that as we go through life, we "accentuate the positive." I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

Don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do great and good things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. Believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. You are not destined to be a scrub. You are a child of God, of infinite capacity.

as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

everything in life is a good news/bad news story.

Finally, if the person I'm talking to appears wedded determinedly to the past and unwilling to contemplate a better future, I grow impatient. It is misplaced kindness to offer only sympathy, even where it is clearly justified. It is hope that I'm really selling. If, after extended effort, I cannot persuade someone to buy, I am wasting both our time by continuing.

We wouldn't be capable of hope, if hope had no meaning.

It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.

We don't make mistakes — we just have happy accidents every once in a while.

Whatever is — is best.

Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.

You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.

I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue.

Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.

Win or lose, every time you do something in life be positive about it, be proud of the progress you're making.

One needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.

Dear Life: When you give me dilemmas, I make dilemmanade.

If you fail to look at the Brightside of life, You will fail to succeed at leaving the Darkside of life.

Even when the future's not certain, our hearts can still be certain — of love and happiness and all that's good.

Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.

Even if you lose a ray or two of your star, keep shining!

Don't say it's all going to be good again someday. It's still good now — if you really look.

If you wait long enough, it will be good weather.