Good Optimistic Quotes

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

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'.

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.

Finish every day and be done with it.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

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

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.

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.

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.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

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

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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.

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.