Quotes About Optimism

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Optimism... A kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Optimism... To whistle while passing a cemetery in the night; to sing a hymn while having a tooth pulled; to smile while being robbed.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Optimism... Fatty degeneration of intelligence.

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

All it takes is an apostrophe and a bit of an attitude adjustment to go from "impatient" to "I'm patient."

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

This is the first convention of the Space Age — when a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles!

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

The best way to live your life is to go to the other side of the rainbow young, but at a very old age.

Be thankful for the little things, that always come your way, For little things to wondrous size, perchance may grow some day. Don't cast aside red roses, just because of one sharp thorn, Remember it's the darkest night, that brings the brightest dawn.

Love sees roses without thorns.

It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets us just that much closer to heaven.

With all its ups and downs, skipping is just one more metaphor for life.

And I'll skip to Heaven on my own two feet.

Skipping chases away the blues, and happiness will come chasing after you.

The pursuit of happiness: skipping is one of your best chances of catching it.

Every smile makes you a day younger.