Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Votes: 5
Helen KellerOptimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. Votes: 4
Brian TracyOptimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows Votes: 3
Martin SeligmanOptimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you. Votes: 3
Norman Vincent PealeOptimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. Votes: 3
Cyril ConnollyOptimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. Votes: 3
Erich FrommOptimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality Votes: 3
Oliver PellOptimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built. Votes: 3
Sharon LechterOptimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. Votes: 3
Margaret AtwoodOptimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions Votes: 3
Deepak ChopraOptimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful. Votes: 3
Bill VaughanOptimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it. Votes: 3
James Randall RobisonOptimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceOptimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. Votes: 3
Norman CousinsOptimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from. Votes: 3
Simon SinekOptimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Votes: 3
Nicholas Murray ButlerOptimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Votes: 3
Nicholas M. ButlerOptimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. Votes: 3
Alice Thomas EllisOptimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly. Votes: 3
Wes FeslerOptimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. Votes: 3
William Arthur WardThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Votes: 2
Franklin D. RooseveltIf you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. Votes: 2
Peace PilgrimThe optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Votes: 2
J. Robert OppenheimerHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Votes: 2
Anne FrankI can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Votes: 2
Jimmy DeanThere's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road. Votes: 1
Conor OberstI believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism. Votes: 1
Sylvester StalloneFalse optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness. Votes: 0
Abraham MaslowPosterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyReal optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome. Votes: 0
William Arthur WardInnocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth. Votes: 0
Charles A. ReichIt is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ... Votes: 0
Adrienne RichThe soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism. Votes: 0
Joan WickershamThe American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective. Votes: 0
Michael J. FoxI do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EnglePessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance. Votes: 0
Toyotomi HideyoshiHappiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanComplaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism. Votes: 0
Simon SinekSuccess requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. Votes: 0
David MyersEducated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. Votes: 0
David LandesCircumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. Votes: 0
William Ralph IngeThe existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. Votes: 0
George SantayanaSeedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism. Votes: 0
Geoff HamiltonHope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity. Votes: 0
Santiago "Jimmy" MelladoPerpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention. Votes: 0
Maureen DowdFor my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out. Votes: 0
Pierre TrudeauWhat distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism. Votes: 0
Madeleine AlbrightEmerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. Votes: 0
Howard Mumford JonesBull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. Votes: 0
John TempletonAs idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off. Votes: 0
Michael LewisOnly the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks. Votes: 0
Olivia WildeI feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel. Votes: 0
Filippo Tommaso MarinettiRegardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches. Votes: 0
Gary JohnsonMost of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. Votes: 0
Mary QuantIt can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultConstruction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence. Votes: 0
Cesar PelliPessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up. Votes: 0
Orison Swett MardenThe Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. Votes: 0
Timothy KellerSpirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you. Votes: 0
Judith OrloffNo one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism. Votes: 0
Robert MuellerHuman spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. Votes: 0
Bernard BeckettDavid Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today Votes: 0
Francis Maudebut sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it's sadly temporary in its effects. Votes: 0
Rachel CaineWhen action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing. Votes: 0
Daniel KahnemanFor me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis. Votes: 0
Carrie BrownsteinFeeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonThere's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. Votes: 0
Jim LeachBreak ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism. Votes: 0
Dov DavidoffIn every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key. Votes: 0
Wes FeslerWhat I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership. Votes: 0
Bob IgerI think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true. Votes: 0
Samuel AlitoI am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country. Votes: 0
Narendra ModiA short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism. Votes: 0
Karel CapekI don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. Votes: 0
Doris LessingWorld War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. Votes: 0
Stephen AmbroseToday we confront the future with optimism from a founded hope for the Iraqi people - in freedom Votes: 0
Jose Maria AznarTrue optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. Votes: 0
David RichoOne has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are. Votes: 0
Tony KushnerThe only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature. Votes: 0
Jon SnowI have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country. Votes: 0
Joan BladesI understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism. Votes: 0
Tom HanksI am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism Votes: 0
Roberto RosselliniI'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.' Votes: 3 Colum McCann
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run. Votes: 3 Tony Judt
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough. Votes: 2 Richard DeVos