Quotes about Optimism

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I don't think limits.

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.