1,853 Quotes About Optimism

The pessimist focuses on the storm;the optimist looks forward to the rainbow.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

I am by nature a worried optimist ...

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

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

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