Quotes About Optimism

Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.

Life: An affirmative between two negatives.

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.

Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.

Are you sure we are making the most of it?

Sometimes just looking up and seeing the light is enough.

Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness.

Meanwhile I am consoling myself for your absence by finding my advantage in it — shining like Hesperus when Hyperion has departed... I never held it my forte to be a severe reasoner, but I can see that if whatever is best is A, and B happens to be best, B must be A, however little you might have expected it beforehand.

Look at the bright side — at least Mondays only happen once a week.

Not the day only, but all things have their morning.

I try to start every morning with a mug of cheer and an over-easy attitude.

It is a sovereign remedy against Despair and Melancholy.

A setting sun still whispers a promise for tomorrow.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it'll be too dark to read.

Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"

Pitch your tents toward the sunrising!

Wearing his eyes in his heart, the optimist falls over his own feet, and calls it Progress.