1,853 Quotes About Optimism

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

Optimism is evidence-based.

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.

May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.