Quotes about Optimism

The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back.

It insists that life is meaningful and that we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life.

it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

To say yes to life is not only meaningful under all circumstances--because life itself is--but it is also possible under all circumstances.

Under the same conditions, those who were oriented toward the future, toward a meaning that waited to be fulfilled—these persons were more likely to survive. Nardini and Lifton, two American military psychiatrists

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

As good as gold [Tiny Tim].

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.