Quotes about Optimism
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
- Aristotle
A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.
- Andrew Carnegie
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
- Euripides
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
- Earl Nightingale
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
- William Wordsworth
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.
- Abraham Lincoln
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
- Marcel Pagnol
And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day.
- Emily Bronte
Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.
- John Wooden
But to those who kept saying "It can't be done," Never are the victories Or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters Watched from far behind.
- Bruce Lee
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
- Maya Angelou
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin