Positive Emotions: Optimism Quotes

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"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"Live constructively and live optimistically"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

Alfred A. Montapert

"I imagine that yes is the only living thing"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience"

Don Marquis, Journalist

Don Marquis

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

Charlotte Bronte

"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

""Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney- Every decision you make is a mistake"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"Let us choose to believe something good can happen"

J. Martin Kohe, Psychologist

J. Martin Kohe

"At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country"

James Monroe, President

James Monroe

"I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better"

Stanley Schmidt, Writer

"If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know!"

Dorothy Stratten, Celebrity

Dorothy Stratten

"You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it"

Miranda Richardson, Actress

Miranda Richardson

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us"

John N. Mitchell, Politician

"I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism"

Roberto Rossellini, Director

"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer"

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

Peter Ustinov

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

William Arthur Ward

"In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"When you have vision, it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic"

Charles R. Swindoll, Clergyman

Charles R. Swindoll

"Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

Nhat Hanh

"A good thing never ends"

Mick Jagger, Musician

Mick Jagger

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart"

Anne Frank, Writer

"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will"

Antonio Gramsci, Politician

"I guess maybe I'm idealistic"

John Cusack, Actor

John Cusack

"Do not expect the world to look bright if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses"

Charles William Eliot, Educator

"My first thought is always of light"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

Galen Rowell

"I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see hoe great it will get!"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come"

Amy Lowell, Poet

"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer"

William R. Alger, Writer

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