These optimism quotes will inspire you. Optimism is a doctrine that this world is the best possible world or hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging optimism quotes, optimism sayings, and optimism proverbs.
Famous Optimism Quotes
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~ Helen Keller
- “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ~ William Arthur Ward
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“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” ~ Lucille Ball , Optimism quotes for hard times
- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” ~ Colin Powell
- “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” ~ Harry S. Truman
- “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.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.” ~ Robert Breault
- “A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
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“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” ~ Robert Foster Bennett
- “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.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” ~ Victor Hugo
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“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.” ~ Jonas Salk
- “There is abundant reason to believe that optimism – big, little, and in between – is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.” ~ Christopher Peterson
- “Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.” ~ Laozi
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” ~ Martin Luther
- “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.” ~ David Landes
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“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” ~ Walt Disney
- “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.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” ~ Bill Vaughan
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“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” ~ Willie Nelson
- “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
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“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
- “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.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Light tomorrow with today!” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.” ~ Pearl S. Buck
- “It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!” ~ Robin Roberts
- “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles… Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.” ~ Helen Keller
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“Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Unknown
- “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “Surround yourself with optimistic people.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes’.” ~ Stephen Colbert
- “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
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“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.” ~ Christian D. Larson
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“Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “Creeds matter very little… The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.” ~ James Branch Cabell
- “Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.” ~ Chetan Bhagat
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“Optimism. It’s not just a mindset, it is behavior.” ~ Larry Elder
- “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” ~ Charles Dickens
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“Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” ~ Joan Rivers
- “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.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.” ~ Leonid Andreyev
