“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill
“An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures and are not afraid to fail again.” Harvey Mackay
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” Helen Keller
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” John Wooden
“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” Benjamin Franklin
“Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.” Robert H. Schuller
“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
“Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects.” Norman Cousins
“Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.” Rick Steves
“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant―the digitalis of failure.” Elbert Hubbard
“What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won’t always be bleak [and] there’s a way to rise above the present circumstances.” Wayne W. Dyer
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.” Noam Chomsky
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Martin Luther
“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine
“What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won’t always be bleak, there’s a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.” – Wayne W. Dyer
“Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.” – Dalai Lama
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller