Quotes About Optimism

Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means—we have everything to gain!

If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.

Count your blessings—not your troubles!

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say: "To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day.

Always begin and end the message on a positive note rather than on a pessimistic or detached one.

Cuando el destino nos entregue un limón, tratemos de convertirlo en limonada.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

On those days or mornings when you feel worst, when you think everything is hopeless, that nothing will happen--sometimes the best things happen.

Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way.

She preferred to get high on life.

I wasn't a cynic; I was a banged-up realist.

Life is messy, violent, confusing, and hopeful.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

Mantén tu rostro siempre hacia la luz del sol, y las sombras caerán detrás de ti.

I believe in all that—in baseball, in picnics, in freedom.

Keep your face always toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you