Optimistic Quotes (49) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Optimistic. An optimistic person thinks the best possible thing will happen, and hopes for it even if it's not likely.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas M. Butler
I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'
Colum McCann
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. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life...
Walt Disney
Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?
Robert Noyce
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
Dalai Lama
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
J. R. R. Tolkien
People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.
Bob Losure
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
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Deepak Chopra
I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know - secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time - that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.
George W. Bush
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Miguel de Cervantes
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Oscar Wilde
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.
Silken Laumann
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Jack Layton
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
Alice Morse Earle
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Richard Bach
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
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
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Breault
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Khalil Gibran
Positive things happen to positive people.
Sarah Beeny
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
Jane Wagner
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
Surround yourself with optimistic people.
Zig Ziglar
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James
I'm not much but I'm all I have.
Philip K. Dick
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill
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