Quotes on Optimism In Life

We live in the best of all possible worlds

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.

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

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.