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Quotes About Optimism

Why weep when it takes less energy to laugh? Why frown when it takes less energy to smile? Why despair when it takes less energy to hope? Why fear when it takes less energy to love?
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Turn your frowns into smiles, your tears into laughter, your weaknesses into strengths, your setbacks into opportunities, and your failures into victories.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Hold on to hope and positive thoughts
~ strength for thy soul.
The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
An enduring belief in light rises above the darkness of night.
~ Margo Kelly, Unlocked
Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.
~ Gina Barreca
Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life can get tough, but it's never impossible with a good attitude to your latitude.
~ Mary-Ellen Peters
Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
~ Maori proverb
Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
I rise with every sunrise.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.
~ Josh Cathey
All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.
~ Alexandre Dumas
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.
~ E. B. White
I don't need easy, I just need possible.
~ Bethany Hamilton
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
~ Victoria Woodhull
If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
~ Erma Bombeck
When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.
~ Lynn Hill
I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
~ Tzipi Livni
It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?
~ Bonnie St. John
One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.
~ Richard DeVos
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
~ Audrey Hepburn