Quotes on Optimism

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

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

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.