Optimism Quotes

"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

"I still really love the Internet."

"I'm an eternal optimist. I've no regrets. I've people who love me. I've a wonderful life. I'm grateful for what I have."

"Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal."

"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."

Irv Kupcinet

"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer."

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."

Alphonse Karr

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

Audrey Hepburn

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement."

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."

Colleen Wilcox

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

William James

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

Mary Lou Retton

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."

Kahlil Gibran

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

"There is always light behind the clouds."

Louisa May Alcott

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

Elbert Hubbard

"Optimism is true moral courage."

Ernest Shackleton

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

"And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)"

Dr. Seuss

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalise on what comes.”

“I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.”