Optimist Quotes

The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

Christian D. Larson

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Christian D. Larson

He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.

Adam P. Knave

An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.

Debasish Mridha

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Anthony Liccione

There's no point in knowing without enlightenment, yet edified insights arouse movement.

JT Sanz

An optimist sees the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

Debasish Mridha

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Dr. Seuss

His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism.

Shelby D. Hunt

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

Bill Cosby

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Harvey MacKay

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Munia Khan

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

Oscar Wilde

We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can live our life with the taint of aftermath or look forward to embracing each beguiling day with renewed energy and enthusiasm.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

C. JoyBell C.

...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists.""I find that hard to believe""Of course you do, you're an optimist. You have a misguided belief that things will go your way. You don't see the dangers till it's too late. Pessimists are more realistic. "That seems like a sad way to govern your life.""It's a safe way to govern your life.

Susin Nielsen

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

Cathy Burnham Martin

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

Jenny Han

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist real

Vera Nazarian

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

Debasish Mridha

An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Don Marquis

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

Bernard Malamud

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Amit Kalantri

Do this exercise: Demolish the bridges of pessimism behind you. If you do this very well, you'll have no other choice than to move forward! Successful people are always optimistic!

Israelmore Ayivor

The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!

Israelmore Ayivor

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.

Amit Kalantri

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate,you’ll have company!

Roman Payne

Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.

Jack Kerouac

Don't let the blights of the past hold you back from the bliss of the future

Constance Friday

Don't let the blights from the past hold you back from the bliss of the future

Constance Friday

A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.

Kamand Kojouri

Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.

Jonathan Harnisch

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

Constancev Chuks Friday

My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched by black holes in the universe. She describes herself as an optimist but she worries about everything—worries incessantly—worries on behalf of others when she feels they are not worrying adequately for themselves.And my mother misses her own mother, my grandmother, immensely, who only has a past now; who is only allowed to be as we remember her.

Sara Baume

Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.

Germany Kent

Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Amy Jo Cousins

This world is unreal and ever-changing. Only an optimist with optimum love can adjust and grow with joy.

Debasish Mridha

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

William Golding

If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.

Germany Kent

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

Richie Norton

All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship

Jocelyn Murray

The strategist chooses the shortest path while the leader chooses the path through which he learns something new.

Bogdan Vaida

we met one strange summerin a regular tangle of sticky websyou had the air of angels sweet but I--drowned with the damned spiritsin lava oceans fearing your--foreign static frequency and grey-green eyes(I swear they are even if you--think otherwise): stormscalm ones, calmer than my--raging coals, empty and deadyou speak of souls like you believealways an optimist in pessimisticskin of ivory and titanium mesh...

Moonshine Noire

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Keep your heads up! We are sinking!

Ljupka Cvetanova

For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.

Debasish Mridha

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!

Vera Nazarian

Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.

Germany Kent

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Criss Jami

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

Lemony Snicket

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