Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Optimism. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Optimism Quotes And Sayings by 88 Authors including William Arthur Ward,Simon Sinek,Luke Scull,Hilary Thayer Hamann,Studs Terkel for you to enjoy and share.
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. -- William Arthur Ward
Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from. -- Simon Sinek
Expect the worst and you can't be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard. -- Luke Scull
Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome -- Hilary Thayer Hamann
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. -- Studs Terkel
Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible. -- Daisaku Ikeda
I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think. -- Jonathan Evison
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism. -- Tom Hanks
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
"What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God. -- Jonathan Kellerman
Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. -- Colin Wilson
Optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
What's optimism? said Cacambo.
Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. -- Voltaire
Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice. -- Shonda Rhimes
Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success. -- Sri Chinmoy
Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated -- Albert Meltzer
Optimism research teaches us that we should expect the best and have a contingency plan for the worst. -- Paul Dolan
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. -- Nicholas M. Butler
Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome. -- William Arthur Ward
I'm rarely optimistic. -- Paul Singer
We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims. -- Bill Frist
Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure. -- Ernest Hemingway,
Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions. -- Tim Brown
I'm an optimistic guy. -- Michael Douglas
OPTIMISM is to man , what the Sun is to vegetation ! -- Abha Maryada Banerjee
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. -- Paul Fussell
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. -- Seth Godin
Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use. -- Horace Fletcher
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. -- David Myers
I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope. -- Bruce Springsteen
For my part ... I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out. -- Pierre Trudeau
I think optimism is a moral imperative. -- Marianne Williamson
Optimism is the foundation of courage. -- Nicholas M. Butler
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. -- Raymond Aron
Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it. -- James Randall Robison
Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous. -- Hyman G. Rickover
I am an optimist. -- Bob Brown
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
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. -- Voltaire
Hope is confidence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. -- Jim Leach
Hope is confident believe. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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. -- Noam Chomsky
Optimism is the true moral courage -- Ernest Shackleton
Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks. -- Denis Waitley
Being optimistic is the view looking for the best, it comes with the "never give up" attitude. -- Pearl Zhu
Be optimistic about everything in life. -- Michael Jordan
Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters. -- George Weigel
The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing. -- Daniel Goleman
Most people are highly optimistic most of the time. -- Daniel Kahneman
There's nothing worse than misplaced optimism. -- Charlie Cole
I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important! -- Terry Jones
Optimism is a competitive advantage. -- Jon Gordon
Optimism is the opium of the people. -- Milan Kundera
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off. -- Michael Lewis
Make hope a way toward optimism; make optimism a way of life. -- Debasish Mridha
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism ... [because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions. -- Price Pritchett
What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly. -- Voltaire
I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism. -- George Meyer
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful. -- Bill Vaughan
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks. -- Daniel Kahneman
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. -- Voltaire
I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility. -- Ai Weiwei
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I think that I am a deeply optimistic person. -- Julia Roberts
People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful. -- Michael Robotham
Share your optimisms and keep your pessimisms to yourself. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life. -- Leni Riefenstahl
Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards. -- Carlos Slim
in recent years, some psychologists have reached the conclusion that pessimism may often be as healthy and productive as optimism. At -- Oliver Burkeman
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. -- Henry Rollins
Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality. -- Josemaria Escriva
Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options. -- Robert H. Schuller
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire. -- Bruce Springsteen
Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success. -- Karl Popper
Hope gives happiness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When I am optimistic, I choose to believe that every life I lead, every choice I make, has consequence. That I am not one Harry August but many, a mind flicking from parallel life to parallel life, and that when I die, the world carries on without me, altered by my deeds, marked by my presence. -- Claire North
I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism. -- Sarah Mclachlan
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose. -- Earl Weaver
Faith and optimism are contagious. -- Thom S. Rainer
The heart's optimism always
conquers reality -- J.s. Watts
My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. -- Helen Keller
For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person. -- Harmon Killebrew
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. -- Mary Lou Retton
In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic. -- Lionel Suggs
I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth. -- Antonio Banderas
Optimism is a gift, but one that must be carefully controlled. Your hopeful optimism will get us all killed! -- Noelle Crawford
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. -- Daniel Kahneman
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
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
I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself. -- Michael Franti
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. -- Daniel Kahneman
Pessimism has its own secret
Share of optimism in it too. -- Angela Suba
I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful. -- Alice Waters
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. -- Stephen King
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope. -- Mahmoud Darwish
Hope is enthusiastic anticipation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ... -- Adrienne Rich
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. -- Haruki Murakami
