Quotes on Optimism

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

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

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

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.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.