Optimism Quotes

"It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient."

- Daniel Kahneman

"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."

- Henry Rollins

"America, an immense territory, favour’d by nature with all advantages of climate, soil, great navigable rivers and lakes, &c., was destined to become a great country, populous and mighty; and would in a less time than was generally conceive’d be able to shake off any shackles that might be impos’d on her, and perhaps place them on the imposters."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I wish the Constitution which is offered, had been made more perfect; but I sincerely believe it is the best that could be obtained at this time. And, as a constitutional door is opened for amendment hereafter, the adoption of it, under the present circumstances of the Union, is in my opinion desirable."

- George Washington

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."

- Bill Vaughan

"Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential."

- Ellen Goodman

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

- Helen Keller

"Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities."

- Helen Keller

"Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow."

- Helen Keller

"Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun."

- Helen Keller

"See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future."

- Joel Osteen

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land."

- Helen Keller

"Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward."

- Amy Tan

"Optimist, someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s cha cha."

- Robert Brault

"I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me."

- Rihanna

"No one lives forever, no one. But with advances in modern science and my high-level income, I mean, it’s not crazy to think I can’t live to 245, maybe 300."

- Ricky Bobby

"When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That’s when the sparkle started for me."

- Mary Karr

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

- Cormac McCarthy

"It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you’d better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call."

- Jyoti Arora

"A lot of times, people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."

- Chuck Norris

"There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

- H.G. Wells

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

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

- Rudyard Kipling

"Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Optimism is a beautiful friend that allows you to live every moment with joy and peace."

"No matter how bad it was in the past, your better days are waiting for you. Enjoy them in your new, sober light."