Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old optimism quotes, optimism sayings, and optimism proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.Oscar Wilde
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant ? the digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
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Optimism is the foundation of courage.Nicholas Murray Butler
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.Elbert Hubbard
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Optimism: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.Ambrose Bierce
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My sun sets to rise again.Robert Browning
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.William Faulkner
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.unknown
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.Bernhard Berenson
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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.Mary Lou Retton
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.Martin Luther King Jr.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.Mahatma Gandhi
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If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.William Arthur Ward
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.Twyla Tharp
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Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.Alan Cohen
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The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Optimism helps us persevere. Life isn't easy. But life is always good.John Jacobs
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change by merely changing his attitude.Oprah Winfrey
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Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.Norman Vincent Peale
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.Benjamin Franklin
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Every cloud has a silver lining.English Proverb
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When things are at the worst, they begin to mend.English Proverb
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Sin is behooved, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.Julian of Norwich
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In this best of possible worlds...all is for the best.Voltaire
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In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, / But westward, look, the land is bright.Arthur Hugh Clough
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Twixt the optimist and pessimist / The difference is droll: / The optimist sees the doughnut / But the pessimist sees the hole.McLandburgh Wilson
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell
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Leave your worry on the doorstep, / Just direct your feet / To the sunny side of the street.Dorothy Fields
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In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.Albert Camus
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There is in the worst of fortune the best chances of a happy change.Euripides