Optimistic Quotes

Are you finding it tough to stay positive through a difficult time? Whatever you’re going through, we hope these inspirational quotations show you that optimism is a decision of will and hope, not a reaction to the world.

These quotations come from writers, philosophers, politicians, and a wide range of other people who have faced a variety of problems and hardships. What is it that they all share in common? Their notion that optimism aided them in changing their perspectives and achieving their objectives.

125+ Optimism Quotes To Overcome Problems

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.___Robert Brault

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.___Robert Brault

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.― Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.― Oscar Wilde

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.― Roy T. Bennett

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.― Roy T. Bennett

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.― Roy T. Bennett

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.― Roy T. Bennett

Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.― Roy T. Bennett

Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.― Roy T. Bennett

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.― Roy T. Bennett

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.― Roy T. Bennett

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.― Roy T. Bennett

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.― Roy T. Bennett

Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.― Roy T. Bennett

Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.― Roy T. Bennett

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.― Roy T. Bennett

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.― Roy T. Bennett

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.___Elbert Hubbard

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.___Elbert Hubbard

To find optimism, look for the good things in life. – Catherine Pulsifer

To find optimism, look for the good things in life. – Catherine Pulsifer

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. – Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. – Colin Powell

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.___Noam Chomsky

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.___Noam Chomsky

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.― Roy T. Bennett

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.― Roy T. Bennett

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.― Roy T. Bennett

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.― Roy T. Bennett

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.___Voltaire

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.___Voltaire

What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.___Bob Iger

What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.___Bob Iger

Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.__Ambrose Pierce

Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.__Ambrose Pierce

If you can’t give children optimism, then what are you doing? – Matt Haig

If you can’t give children optimism, then what are you doing? – Matt Haig

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.___Dietrich Bonhoeffer


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

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

I think I am going to have to supercharge my optimism to arm myself for the battle ahead.___Rebecca Bloom


If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.___Oscar Wilde


Optimism is the opium of the people.___Milan Kundera

Optimism is the opium of the people.___Milan Kundera

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.___Nicholas M. Butler


Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.___Twyla Tharpe


Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. – Norman Cousins

Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. – Norman Cousins

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.___Nicholas M. Butler


Optimism makes a life happier and meaningful. – M.K. Soni


The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.___Brian May

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.___Brian May

Sports uplift us. It’s celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.___Travis Kalanick


True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.___Bibi Bourelly


My optimism for life carried through my work.___John Dyer

My optimism for life carried through my work.___John Dyer

Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it’s necessary to being a leader.___Sylvester Stallone


Optimism can be relearnt. – Marian Keyes

Optimism can be relearnt. – Marian Keyes

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.___Jane McGonigal


It’s not that optimism solves all of life’s problems; it is just that it can sometimes make the difference between coping and collapsing.___Lucy MacDonald, Learn to Be an Optimist


Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it’s necessary to being a leader.___Gen. Rick Hillier


I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.___Dolores O’Riordan

I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.___Dolores O’Riordan

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.___Price Pritchett, Hard Optimism


What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won’t always be bleak, there’s a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.___Wayne W. Dyer


Self-belief, optimism, and hard work, these things don’t guarantee to get any of us to the top, but they at least give us a fighting chance.___Jason Ayres

Self-belief, optimism, and hard work, these things don’t guarantee to get any of us to the top, but they at least give us a fighting chance.___Jason Ayres

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.___Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay


Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety.___Kathleen A. Brehony

Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety.___Kathleen A. Brehony

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.___Benjamin Franklin


My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.___Jan Brett


When I look at the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes! – Oprah Winfrey

When I look at the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes! – Oprah Winfrey

I am an optimist… I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.___Tom Hiddleston


It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.___Jimmy Buffett

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.___Jimmy Buffett

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.___Theodore Roosevelt


Be an optimist. Thinking positively will surely drive stress, pressure and frustrations away.___Melinda Bauer, Managing Emotions


The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns. The pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.___Khalil Gibran


You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down. – Charlie Chaplin


Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.___Nelson Mandela


Beyond each impenetrable expanse of thundercloud obscurity reigns a boundless canopy of brilliant sapphire blue.___Cara Fox


Optimism vs. Pessimism Quotes

Pessimism never won any battle.___Dwight D. Eisenhauer


I am so far from being a pessimist…on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.___Eugene O’Neill


I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. – Antonio Gramsci


A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.___Winston Churchill


When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.___Charles R. Swindoll


Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.___Thomas L. Friedman


To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.___Albert Schweitzer


Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.– William James


The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.___William Arthur Ward


The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.___William Arthur Ward


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


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


Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It’s up to you to choose which you will be. – Harvey Mackay


Be more optimistic. Pessimism is a kind of behavior that you learn . Hoping for the best and believing that everything is going to be fine in the end helps to reduce stress.___David Brown


The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.___Mark Twain


The optimist looks at the horizon and sees an opportunity; the pessimist peers into the distance and fears a problem.____William Arthur Ward


Being a pessimist closes the door to a learning opportunity while being an optimist opens wide the door for a better future, one of personal and professional development.___Jeff Ribman, Fail Better the Next Time


Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. – Margaret Atwood


It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.___Orison Swett Marden


The optimist turns the impossible into the possible; the pessimist turns the possible into the impossible.___William Arthur Ward


We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.___Sadiq Kahn


An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.___Albert Schweitzer


No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.___William Inge


Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it’s contagious. – Edward C. Prescott


There’s probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.___Jim Leach


A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all–he’s walking on them.___Leonard L. Levinson


It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.___Orison Swett Marden


I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.___Jon Anderson


The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. – Margery Allingham


I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.____Patricia Ireland


Optimism is life–Pessimism, slow suicide.___William Crosby Hunter, Brass Tacs


Funny Optimistic Quotes

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!___Oscar Wilde


Optimism isn’t funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It’s exaggeration.___Steve Toltz


The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde


I find nothing more depressing than optimism.___Paul Fussell


It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.___Robert Breault


Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.___George Bernard Shaw


My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. – Henry Rollins


Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.___Voltaire


The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.___Tom Bodett


What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.___Raymond Error


A pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.___Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe)


Comedy is acting out optimism. – Robin Williams


It’s not whether the glass is half empty or half full, but who’s pouring the water.___Mark Cuban


Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.___William Goldman


Optimism. It’s not just a mind-set, it is behavior. – Larry Elder


Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.___Mary Lou Retton


Optimistic Outlook Quotes

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.___Lucy Larcom


Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.___Rick Steves


They can because they think they can. – Virgil


I am enjoying my life because things aren’t going the way I planned.___Rohit Pandita


I 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


It isn’t all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.___Gene Roddenberry


One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.___Lucille Ball


Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.___Alphonse Karr


How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.___Anne Frank


I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.___Justice Sonia Sotomayor


Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. – Colleen Wilcox


Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.___Christine Caine


I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.___Paul Theroux


Don’t let your failures define you—let them teach you. – Barack Obama


No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.__David Hume


In the hour of adversity, be not without hope; for crystal rain falls from black clouds.___Nizami


Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.___Dr. Seuss


Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.___Marcus Aurelius


Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


The way you look at life can determine your success. As they say, look on the bright side. Have an optimistic attitude.___Catherine Pulsifer


Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.___Gary Johnson


You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.___Goldie Hawn


You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis


For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.___Winston Churchill


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