Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Margery Allingham

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Michel de Montaigne

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

George Santayana

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

George Santayana

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

George Meyer

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

Joseph Addison

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.

Jonathan Swift

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Norman Vincent Peale

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

Edward Teller

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Orison Swett Marden

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

Michael J. Fox

Optimism is a cure for many things.

Mahatma Gandhi

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

John McEnroe

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

John Irving

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

John Hench

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

Seamus Heaney

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Shonda Rhimes

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Neil Gaiman

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

John Templeton

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

Michael Lewis

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Michael Stipe

I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

Hector Hugh Munro

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Patricia Cornwell

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

Plato

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

Martin Seligman

There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

Max Lucado

Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

Maureen Dowd

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

John F. Kerry

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

My optimism for life carried through my work.

Joseph Stiglitz

I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand the depths of the problem afterwards, I found a little bit surprising.