Quotes about Optimism

“My sun sets to rise again.”

“Vote with your life; vote yes!”

“A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.”

“Optimism is the opium of the people.”

“The happy ending is our national belief.”

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

“An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.”

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

“I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.”

“An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.”

“Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!”

“The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.”

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

“To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.”

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”

“When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.”

“An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.”

“Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”

“The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.”

“The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.”

“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.”

“These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

“When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.”

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

“I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.”

“The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.”

“Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.”