Quotes about Optimism

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow's sunshine.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

Nothing will cost you more in life than a predetermined belief that things aren't going to work out.

The sorrows of the world are, because we live too little in the future.

One German officer lived in the house opposite ours. He had a room with the Kahn family. They said he was a charming man - calm, likable, polite, and sympathetic. Three days after he moved in he brought Madame Kahn a box of chocolates. The optimists rejoiced.

The main theme remains constant: man owes it to himself to reject despair; better to rely on miracles than opt for resignation. By changing himself, man can change the world.

From Jeff Greenfield: I once asked Elie Wiesel Are you an optimist or a pessimist? An optimist, he said. I have to be.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Oh yet we trust that somehow goodWill be the final goal of ill.