Quotes about Optimism

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.

Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

I'm not Pollyanna. Nobody has a magic wand.

I suppose they think me an old man and imagine it is nothing for one like me to resign a life so full of trials. But I am not old - at least in that sense; you know I am not. Oh, no man ever left the world with more inviting prospects, with brighter hopes, or warmer feelings - warmer feelings.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives

To believe in luck - is skepticism.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.