80 Optimistic Quotes
Be inspired by these optimistic quotes. Optimism defined by Webster's dictionary - the inclination to take a hopeful view. We all have a choice every day - we can be full of optimism and look forward to the day or we can be full of pessimism and frown before the day even begins.We can look forward with hope and faith that no matter what is going on that it will work out. If you believe that your future is promising it usually will be. But if you are full of doom and gloom chances are that is what you will continue to have.
A sunny disposition is always better. People like to be around optimistic people, people who give them hope and see things in a positive light. People who are cheerful and look for the good, they are not defeated at the first issue that arises. By choosing optimism you will find life is easier and solutions will present themselves because you are focusing on the solution rather than the issue! You may also be encouraged by our collection of optimistic poems.
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being
anything else.
Sir Winston Churchill
Inspirational Poems -
I will, I can, I will! says he who means to win.
David V. Bush, I Will
Poems Of Encouragement -
Be persistent and do not ever quit, embrace life's challenges and success you will hit.
Catherine Pulsifer, Don't Regress
Don't Quit Poem -
God has given us life to enjoy, so don't forget to take the time to appreciate the beauty and joy that He created.
Catherine Pulsifer
Christian Poems -
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.
Joan Rivers
Motivational Poems -
We never know what joy will bring, but optimism our hearts can sing. Forget the past and yesterday's strife,
energize yourself, this day of your life.
Catherine Pulsifer, What A Great Day
Good Morning Poems -
Let go of yesterday and start anew, move forward with dreams to pursue.
Catherine Pulsifer, If Only
If Poems -
Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Disappointment Poems -
Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.
Focus on your character, not your reputation.
Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes. Roy T. Bennett
Positive Poems -
Optimism is going through hardships, but never losing hope.
Catherine Pulsifer
Lost Hope Quotes -
Of the sunny side of living - you've not lost sight of it.
Mrs. Fred C. Wilbanks, To Dad
Dad Poems -
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present,
but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others
have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the
future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Poems About Hope -
Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say "I can"
Judge Walter Malone, Opportunity
Meaningful Poems -
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet
Funny Thanksgiving Poems -
A brand new day with optimism held within our hearts, so many choices await us, so much joy we can impart.
Catherine Pulsifer, Begins A Brand New Day
Weekly Poems -
Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong,
defeated or victorious.
Norman Vincent Peale, The Tough-Minded Optimist
Defeat Quotes -
Pessimism removes winning from the list of options.
John Herrick
Quotes On Winning -
What makes the biggest difference in someone's life? The person's attitude for sure - it can be positive and optimistic
Catherine Pulsifer, The Biggest Difference
Attitude Poems -
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
Poems About Beauty -
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
William Arthur Ward
Quotes About Clouds -
Look on the sunny side of things and you will find success it will bring.
Catherine Pulsifer, Words of Wisdom For The New Graduate
Graduation Poems -
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Quotes -
Those who would make friends must ... look upward and be hopeful, cheery and optimistic.
Author Unknown, Admire and Love Them
Love and Friendship Poems -
A new beginning with school now done...my studies completed as this chapter closes, with optimism and eagerness, I no longer dread
Catherine Pulsifer, School Now Done
A New Chapter In Life Poem -
Before we focus on the negative we should always look for the good.
Catherine Pulsifer, Habits We Need To Let Go Of
Letting Go Poem -
When you have vision it affects your attitude.
Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Charles R. Swindoll
Poems about Life -
I will learn to dominate my restless thoughts and look on the bright side of things.
Unknown, A Creed
Poems About Being Yourself -
The optimist, by his superior wisdom and insight, is making his own heaven, and in the degree that he
makes his own heaven, is he helping to make one for all the world beside.
R. W. Trine
Wisdom Quotes -
There is a shady side of life, and a sunny side as well and 'tis for every one to say on which he'd choose to dwell.
Unknown, The Cheerful Heart
Choices Quotes -
Without change what a boring place - change is good if you do embrace.
Catherine Pulsifer, Full Of Change
Poems About Change -
Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.
Germany Kent
Gratitude Quotes -
God gave us the gift to think...are you thinking good or bad? Remember you are the man you think.
Lee P. Middlestetter, Thoughts Are Things
Think On These Things -
An optimistic attitude begins with the waves of positive vibes in the ocean of our mind and propels us towards the shores of success and happiness.
Debasish Mridha, MD
Ocean Quotes -
I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'
Luke Bryan
Celebrate Quotes -
New Year, your worst will be my best
R. H. Stoddard, The New Year
New Year Poems -
Everyone experiences problems, challenges, or difficulties. The pessimist cowers but the optimist grows.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Experience Quotes -
Look upon the sunny side of each word and thought, and you shall be satisfied, you shall lack for naught.
Julia Harris May, The Sunny Side
Sunshine Poems -
Faith sees the sunny side of life, and wings the soul on high.
B. E. Warren, What Faith Does
Poems About Faith -
Happiness is .... optimism our able advisor
William Arthur Ward, Happiness Is When
Poems About Happiness -
These would I keep: ...the optimism childhood had
Lida Marie Erwin, These I Would Keep
Life Journey Poems -
What my dad was to frugality, my mother was to optimism.
Sonny Melendrez, The Art of Living With Enthusiasm!
Short Family Quotes -
Though the task is too arduous and your patience are thin - do not give up, look and see there's a silver lining in.
Catherine Pulsifer, Hang On
Try Try Again Poem -
Do I believe in opportunities or just choose to ignore? One way brings optimism, embracing the world and its joys - the other hides beneath a cloud, hearing only the noise.
Catherine Pulsifer, My Outlook
Opportunity Poems -
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Poems About The Wind -
Be as upbeat as you can be. The basic success orientation
is having an optimistic attitude.
John DePasquale
Attitude Quotes - A person with optimism finds solutions.
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems -
Looking for good, in a pile of bad. You'll find the part, that makes you feel glad.
Julie Hebert, Thankful For Unpleasant Things
Winter Poems -
Just cling to your good thoughts and make them last, they're dividend paying stocks
Unknown, Holdfast!
Poems For Teenagers -
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they
can sure make something out of you.
Muhammed Ali
Believe Quotes -
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
Famous Poems -
What matter how dark the storm-clouds? There's always a brighter side.
Clara McAlister Brooks, Life's Mystery
LIfe Is Good Poems -
Look on the bright side every time don't waste your days repining. When any cloud looks dark and dull,
turn out the silver lining.
Unknown, Good In The Day
Life Mottos -
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan J. Bissonette
Thought Provoking Quotes -
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel L. Reardon
Winning Poems -
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington
Thoughtful Quotes -
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Opportunity Quotes -
The pessimist sees only gloom in everything - but you are not afraid to trust and wait, to strive and think and do!
Folger M. Kinsey, Toward The Light
Son Poems -
If you take every negative, and find the good in it. You'll soon see the magic, that positive mind can transmit.
Catherine Pulsifer, Positive Is Key
Positive Attitude Poems -
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll.
The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Oscar Wilde
Smile Quotes -
Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
Positive Quotes -
The pessimist's a joyless man, he finds no sweet delight
In making this a happier world, in fighting for the right Unknown
The Pessimist -
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.
Katherine Mansfield
Life Quotes -
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Hope Quotes -
Promise Yourself... To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
Christy Larson, Promise Yourself
A Life Well Lived -
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde
Challenges Quotes -
Doors of opportunity are open to the optimist.
William Arthur Ward, Opportunity
If I Can -
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
Opportunity Quotes -
...no matter what happens in our life we should always stay optimistic and be looking for the opportunity.
Catherine Pulsifer
Be Inspired -
There will be days when the fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
Roderick Haig Brown
Poems About Fishing -
You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm
and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.
Norman Vincent Peale, The Tough-Minded Optimist
Positive Thoughts -
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
Discouraged Quotes -
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotes To Live By -
Compassionate self-care enables us to take responsibility and mindfully choose what kind of “modern” medical care to take advantage of as needed.
Mary Beth Janssen, The Book of Self-Care
Take Care Of Yourself Quotes -
Behind every success story is usually someone who beat the obstacles
because he or she refused to accept the pessimist's view.
Seymour Schulich, Get Smarter Life and Business Lessons
Trouble Quotes -
For This One Hour I can be optimistic - Striking a happy medium between the pessimist and the Pollyanna
William Arthur Ward
For This One Hour -
An optimist, on the other hand, experiences greater happiness
and approaches life with more courage, his efforts unhindered by
fear of failure or misfortune.
Erik Blumenthal, Peace With Your Partner
Happiness Quotes -
To see the brighter side of things, you first have to imagine the very worst.
Author Unknown
Adversity Quotes -
An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Nansbury
Laughing Quotes -
Going from a pessimistic person to a positive, optimistic person is easier
than you think! It just takes the right habits, as well as time, to start seeing
a change in yourself and others.
Tony Robson, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Life By Cultivating Positivity and Love For True Success
Positive Quotes About Change -
My choice to be positive and optimistic is not made blindly or irrationally.
It's my belief that the very creative center of all nature and all life is positive,
optimistic, and hopeful.
Zig Ziglar
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