September 3 2022

130+ Optimistic Quotes That Will Make Everything Seem Possible

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Be optimistic! You will certainly experience less stress and anxiety in your daily life. Do you know that when you believe in your abilities and expect good things to happen, they most likely will, more often than not? Seeing things with a more positive outcome is a mindset and a choice, and in spite of the setbacks, we can choose to work on such obstacles and improve any situation.
Yes, many celebrities all over the world also tend to view people and events in the most favourable and positive light possible. Like you and me, they too work hard and focus on this attitude to be healthier and triumph. Surely there are many key factors to success but one of them is crucial, and that’s being optimistic. A great number of famous individuals have expressed some very wise words on living buoyantly. Read on to find a remarkable selection of quotes that poets, religious leaders, authors and more have stated, that will motivate and inspire you, friends and loved ones to see a completely new world. It is possible!

Best Optimistic Quotes
Funny Optimistic Quotes

Short Optimistic Quotes
Optimistic Quotes About The Future
Famous Optimistic Quotes

Optimistic Quotes About Life
Quotes About Being Optimistic
Optimist and Pessimist Quotes
I Am Optimistic Quotes

Intellectual and Literary Optimistic Quotes
Optimistic Quotes On Images

Best Optimistic Quotes

They can because they think they can. Virgil
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Victor Hugo
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. Mary Lou Retton
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Marcus Aurelius
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. Dalai Lama XIV
Τhere’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst. Stephen King
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. Helen Keller

I’m no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes. Leonard Bernstein
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Nicholas M. Butler
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. Margaret Atwood
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It’s up to you to choose which you will be. Harvey Mackay

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. Louis D. Brandeis
In the hour of adversity, be not without hope; for crystal rain falls from black clouds. Nizami
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. Brian May
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell
The main benefit of optimism is resilience in the face of setback. Daniel Kahneman
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
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

What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership. Bob Iger
Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted. Christine Caine
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. Rumi
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
Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. Nelson Mandela

A good laugh is sunshine in the house. William Makepeace Thackeray
Those who can raise their thoughts to heaven will always have clear days, because the sun always shines above the clouds. Leo Tolstoy
I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism. Jon Anderson

Funny Optimistic Quotes

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of Jack Daniels. Darynda Jones
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. Don Marquis

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. George Bernard Shaw
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. Philip K. Dick
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead. Robert Brault
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell
“It’s snowing still,” said Eeyore gloomily.
“So it is.”
“And freezing.”
“Is it?”
“Yes,” said Eeyore. “However,” he said, brightening up a little, “we haven’t had an earthquake lately.”
A.A. Milne

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little. Mark Twain
He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman. E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Have a smile for breakfast, you’ll be shitting joy by lunch. Joe Abercrombie
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

Short Optimistic Quotes

Things are always better in the morning.Harper Lee

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.Hafez
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
A.A. Milne
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. Henry Rollins
An optimist is a braver cynic. Colum McCann
You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down. Charlie Chaplin

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. Albert Einstein
I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life. Dolores O’Riordan
I’m not much but I’m all I have. Philip K Dick
My optimism for life carried through my work. John Dyer

Life is all a green old English garden and time an endless summer afternoon. Henry James
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss
The optimism of a revolutionary always gives rise to a sense of wonder. Roger Zelazny
It never hurts to see the good in someone, they often act the better because of it. Nelson Mandela
Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it’s contagious. Edward C. Prescott

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. Maya Angelou
For every dark night there’s a brighter day. Tupac Shakur
It never rains but it pours. Lucy Maud Montgomery
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde
This is it folks. Life. This ain’t a rehearsal. Give it you’re best shot! Freequill

Everything will fall into place, just be patient. Unknown
Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking. Rick Steves
I think I am going to have to supercharge my optimism to arm myself for the battle ahead. Rebecca Bloom
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. Ambrose Pierce
Bear up until you see you’re gaining. Robert Louis Stevenson

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. Margery Allingham
Change happens, when we replace fear with hope. Sukant Ratnakar

Optimistic Quotes About The Future

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. Arthur C. Clarke
We have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can be optimistic, grasp the opportunities that surely exist, and maybe help make the world a better place. Not much of a choice. Noam Chomsky
One very important factor for sustaining hope is to have an optimistic attitude. Optimism doesn’t mean that you are blind to the reality of the situation. It means that you remain motivated to seek a solution to whatever problems arise. Optimism involves looking at a situation not only in relation to problems that arise, but also seeking out some benefit—looking at it in terms of its potential positive outcome. Dalai Lama XIV

A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future. David Mas Masumoto
The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. …I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it’s not just divinely assigned. Michael J. Fox

Famous Optimistic Quotes

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. Winston S. Churchill
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Antonio Gramsci
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. George Bernard Shaw
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. Virginia Woolf
Optimism is the opium of the people. Milan Kundera

Comedy is acting out optimism. Robin Williams
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion. Voltaire
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. Voltaire
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. Carl Sandburg
Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset. Charles Dickens

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

I think it’d be a whole lot better if you focus on what we do well than what we’re unable to do. Isn’t that what you call fair? Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Optimistic Quotes About Life

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Alain de Botton
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. Orison Swett Marden
It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. Nicholas Sparks
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

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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 Gandi
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. Helen Keller
It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference. Helen Keller, Optimism
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end. Roberto Bolaño, 2666
Anxiety does not take away stress; it just enhances it. If you accept changes with optimism and love, anxiety will melt away. Debasish Mridha

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again. Harvey Mackay

Quotes About Being Optimistic

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

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
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

Optimist and Pessimist Quotes

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. Idries Shah
Pessimism never won any battle. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns. The pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. Khalil Gibran

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it. Aldous Huxley
Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety. Kathleen A. Brehony
An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. Tom Bodett
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. William Arthur Ward
The optimist looks at the horizon and sees an opportunity; the pessimist peers into the distance and fears a problem. William Arthur Ward

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
I can’t be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive. James Baldwin
The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy. Lou Andreas-Salomé

I Am Optimistic Quotes

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me… Helen Keller
I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism. Helen Keller, The Open Door

Intellectual and Literary Optimistic Quotes

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Ezra Pound
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery. Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water
I rejoice that I could once think better of the world’s improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice, in a lifetime; or, if so, the rarer and higher is the nature that can magnanimously persist in error. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
Let satirists then laugh their fill at human affairs, let theologians rail, and let misanthropes praise to their utmost the life of untutored rusticity, let them heap contempt on men and praises on beasts; when all is said, they will find that men can provide for their wants much more easily by mutual help. Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Every human being should regard himself as if he were exactly balanced between innocence and guilt. Simultaneously he should regard the world as being in the same case. It follows then that if he performs one good deed, he has weighted the scales in favour of both himself and of the whole world, and thus brought about salvation both for himself and for all the inhabitants of the world. Maimonides

Like any good optimist, I don’t expect the worst to happen. Only, like any optimist worth his salt, I like to go and look as soon as possible afterward jest in case it did. William Faulkner, The Mansion
She sighed as she always does, a deep, gathered breath and a low release of luxury. Some people resent awakening, but not Mary. She comes to a day with the expectancy that it will be good. John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul