1,853 Quotes About Optimism

Marry hope, divorce tension!

Pessimism leans too much on the past, optimism on the future.

She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: ‘I wonder which is my lucky star!

The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The chemist sees the glass completely full, half in liquid state and half in gaseous, both of which is probably poisonous.

My pessimism and cynicism knows no bounds, nothing truly surprises me these days. But when that little spark of optimism, of hope is alight, it burns really brightly in the darkness.

Det är aldrig för sent att ge upp, så det kan vi lika gärna göra någon annan gång.

But failure also can occur when talent and desire are present in abundance but optimism is missing

Glorious creation, so easy to destroy, yet the palette of possibility somehow prevails.

… behind which the panting dog drooped like a dropped chamois. It was too hot to smoke, but he smoked his pipe anyway. The smoke wreathed a strange smile that Dorrigo later came to realise was fixed; determined to find the world cheery in spite of all the evidence life produced to the contrary.