Optimism quotes

  • Susan Lendroth

    “Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.”

  • Roy T. Bennett

    “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”

  • Ritchie Norton

    “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.”

  • Mary Lou Retton

    “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”

  • JRR Tolkien

    “In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”

  • Oprah Winfrey

    “Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”

  • Nicholas M Butler

    “Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”

  • Brendon Burchard

    “Keeping one’s attitude positive, especially when the world conspires to make us mad, is one of the great accomplishments of life.”

  • Harvey Mackay

    “An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere.”

  • Dalai Lama

    “Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.”

  • Amit Kalantri

    “An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere.”

  • Michael J Fox

    “Optimism is informed hope. You've been given something, you've accepted it, and understood it, and then you have to pass it on.”

  • Orison Swett Marden

    “It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder.”

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

  • Helen Keller

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

  • Benny Bellamacina

    “When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine.”

  • Ambrose Bierce

    “Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”

  • Matthew Tysz

    “See the good in everything, and the best of it will find you.”

  • Bernard Beckett

    “Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved.”

  • Connor Chalfant

    “There may be clouds in the sky, and rain may be falling, but this doesn't mean the sun has stopped shining.”

  • Oprah Winfrey

    “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”

  • Jan Brett

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

  • Gabrielle Bernstein

    “In the midst of the darkness, grab a flashlight.”

  • Price Pritchett

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

  • Oscar Auliq-Ice

    “We all deserve to experience genuine happiness and can easily do so.”

  • Norman Cousins

    “Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects.”

  • John Wooden

    “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

  • Robert H. Schuller

    “Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.”

  • Brian May

    “The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.”

  • Sylvester Stallone

    “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.”

  • Rohit Pandita

    “I am enjoying my life because things aren’t going the way I planned.”