Optimism Quotes


Charlotte Bronte:
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

George Bernard Shaw:
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Chinese Proverb:
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Muhammed Ali:
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Unknown Author:
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

William Arthur Ward:
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Calvin Coolidge:
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Rabindranath Tagore:
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Dr. Jonas Salk:
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Katherine Mansfield:
I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy… you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.