1,853 Quotes About Optimism

They reached the cliffs by the time the sun began to rise and Ayohka sat for a moment, taking in the haunting orange beauty and feeling more at peace with the world around her than she ever had before. The country air was full of the morning's first rounds of birdsong. On its breezy arms it carried the smell of sap–rich pines and blooming wildflowers. The past was the past. The future was hers.

Be purposeful about putting yourself in a stimulating environment where your creativity can take flight. 

When we smile to life, it smiles back. Sometimes not right back, but eventually it does.

Always strive to be a collaborative self-starter with an optimistic outlook.

The problem with optimism is that when things change it might turn against you. I feel it is better to be hopeful because it is not concerned with what any outcome might be but still believes that everything will be well, eventually.

Do you think wishful thinking is a psychiatric condition?

We are nothing without our quick and simple blessings, without those willing to drag optimism by its neck to the gates of grief and ask to be let in, an entire choir of voices singing at their back.

And for those who cannot curb their enthusiasm, seeing the cup as half full, and those who cannot find happiness, seeing the cup as half empty, being human, we can abandon the middle path altogether and meet where the cup runneth over, and everyone can choose not to make another unhappy.

Pessimism is a sign of decay, optimism is a sign of superficiality; "tragic optimism" is the mood of the strong man who seeks intensity and extent of experience, even at the cost of woe, and is delighted to find that strife is the law of life.