Optimism Quotes

29 quotations about Optimism
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen · Optimism
Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce · Optimism
An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Ambrose Bierce · Optimism
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
Francis H. Bradley · Optimism
My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning · Optimism
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill · Optimism
These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill · Optimism
A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.
Frank Dane · Optimism
The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis · Optimism
Vote with your life; vote yes!
Das Energi · Optimism
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
William Faulkner · Optimism
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Robert Frost · Optimism
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci · Optimism
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
John F. Kennedy · Optimism
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Milan Kundera · Optimism
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Ring Lardner · Optimism
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Don Marquis · Optimism
The happy ending is our national belief.
Mary Mccarthy · Optimism
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
George Jean Nathan · Optimism
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer · Optimism
To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
Don Piatt · Optimism
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell · Optimism
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg · Optimism
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Optimism
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Mark Twain · Optimism

Authors on Optimism

Jane Austen Ambrose Bierce Francis H. Bradley Robert Browning Winston Churchill Frank Dane Havelock Ellis Das Energi William Faulkner Robert Frost Antonio Gramsci John F. Kennedy Milan Kundera Ring Lardner Don Marquis Mary Mccarthy George Jean Nathan Julius Robert Oppenheimer Don Piatt Colin Powell