Finest cherry picked optimism quotes!
Our finest cherry picked optimism quotes are painstakingly selected from dozens of sources, eliminating the dull, the pompous, and the long-winded.
This is the best of the best, fellow quote-seeker. Below you will find wit, wisdom, and even a few LOL gems. If you need a quote for a term paper or special occasion or a simple pick-me-up, you'll find it here.
A positive attitude makes all the difference in life. As our finest cherry picked optimism quotes prove, the person who overcomes is the man or woman who maintains a hopeful outlook, no matter what's happening around them.
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Check out our finest cherry picked optimism quotes
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
William Inge
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Joyce Meyer
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah Winfrey
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Stephen Richards
It is not enough to have a good mind; the important thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Epictetus
Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly, you're doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day, it usually is.
Catherine Pulsifer
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Stephen King
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.
Bonnie Blair
Optimism is life--Pessimism, slow suicide.
William Crosbie Hunter
Faith and optimism are contagious.
Thom S. Rainer
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
George Jean Nathan
More finest cherry-picked optimism quotes follow:
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
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An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him.
Zig Ziglar
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charled A. Beard
The predominant quality of successful people is optimism....Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
Brian Tracy
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Paul Harvey
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson
Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James
A dead end is just a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
Happiness is not by chance but by choice.
Jim Rohn
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?
Matt Haig
When you think positive, good things happen.
Matt Kemp
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman
Hope is contagious.
Greta Thunberg
You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.
Dolly Parton
Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.
John C. Maxwell
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson
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