Quotes about Optimism

When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.

Count your blessings—not your troubles!

I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say: "To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day.

Always begin and end the message on a positive note rather than on a pessimistic or detached one.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

There's joy all around, if you only look for it.

A day without smiling is a wasted day.