Quotes on optimism
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.
Ball, Lucille
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.
Author, Unknown
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Alexander, Lloyd
Optimists are nostalgic about the future.
Tribune, Chicago
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
Rowland, Helen
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Churchill, Winston
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 my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"
Snicket, Lemony
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
Stern, Gil
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell
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.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Aron, Raymond Claud Ferdinan
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
Levinson, Leonard Louis
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Kupcinet, Irv
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Butler, Nicholas Murray
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Bissonette, Susan J.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Brault, Robert
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Truman, Harry S.
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
Lima, Lucimar Santos de
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Wilde, Oscar