Positive Emotions: Optimism Quotes

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"Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more"

Katy Perry, Musician

Katy Perry

"You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow it's all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

Jack Youngblood

"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil"

Benjamin Haydon, Artist

"If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"Every year of my life, I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false"

Richard Cecil, Clergyman

"There is a supply for every demand"

Florence Scovel Shinn, Artist

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after"

Cat Stevens, Musician

Cat Stevens

"We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands"

Thomas Dewey, Politician

"I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive"

Mark McGwire, Athlete

"With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be"

Geoff Davis, Politician

"But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see"

Kenji Miyazawa, Poet

Kenji Miyazawa

"When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up"

Roger Babson, Educator

"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

Catherine Helen Spence

"A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it"

Joan Lunden, Celebrity

"I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal"

Peter Benchley, Author

"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will"

Don Bluth, Artist

"There is a tendency for things to right themselves"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Children always turn to the light"

David Hare, Playwright

David Hare

"Don't worry about a thing, 'cause every little thing gonna be alright"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"Comedy is acting out optimism"

Robin Williams, Comedian

Robin Williams

"I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Warren Buffett

"It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but it's not always a smooth ride"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Warren Buffett

"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

Robert Brault

"Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties"

Harry S. Truman, President

Harry S. Truman

"Don't ever become a pessimist... A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

Robert A. Heinlein

"A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

Jean de La Fontaine

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