Explore Quotes on Optimism

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.

May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

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

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.