70 Optimistic Quotes to Help You Stay Positive

1. "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - Colin Powell

2. "Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." - William James

3. "Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable." - Voltaire

4. "An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery." - Walter Winchell

5. "I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat." - Harold Wilson

6. "Optimism is the foundation of courage." - Nicholas Murray Butler

7. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde

8. "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci

9. "No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars." - Helen Keller

10. "Miracles happen to those who believe in them." - Bernard Berenson

11. "Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." - Dalai Lama

12. "Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." - J. K. Rowling

13. "Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior." - Larry Elder

14. "Pessimism never won any battle." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

15. "Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white." - Ambrose Bierce

1. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller

2. "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." - Jack Layton

3. "Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." - Nicholas M. Butler

4. "Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time." - Norman Cousins

5. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” - Helen Keller

6. "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

7. "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

8. "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry S. Truman

9. "The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose." - Khalil Gibran

10. "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward

11. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller

12. "Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism." - Wes Fesler

13. "Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both." - Oscar Wilde

14. "When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic." - Charles R. Swindoll

15. "Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems." - Price Pritchett

1. "I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting." - Cherie Blair

2. "Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people." - Tena Desae

3. "When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective." -Harvey Mackay

4. "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." - Shiv Khera

5. "Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful." - Roy T. Bennett

6. "Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so." - David Brooks

7. "Always look on the bright side of life." - Graham Chapman

8. "When its dark enough you can see the stars." - Charles A. Beard

9. "Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you." - Mary Lou Retton

10. "If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." - Peace Pilgrim

11. "All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now." - Pearl S. Buck

12. "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." - William Arthur Ward

13. "Positive anything is better than negative nothing." - Elbert Hubbard

14. "I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." - Winston Churchill

15. "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson

16. "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." - Victor Hugo

17. "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

18. "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

19. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

20. "Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass." - Marianne Williamson

21. "Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail." - Charles Kettering

22. "There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." - C. S. Lewis

23. "You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind." - Emmet Fox

24. "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden

25. "Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward." - Nelson Mandela

1. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” - Zig Ziglar

2. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” - Willie Nelson

3. “Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.” - Harvey Mackay

4. "Positive things happen to positive people." - Sarah Beeny

5. "No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated." - Joel Osteen

6. "Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within." - Brian Tracy

7. "Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day." - Dalai Lama

8. "Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity." - Jay Samit

9. "A positive mindset, not a doomsday mentality, supports being exceptional." - Wayne Dyer

10. "Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation." - Michael Jordan

11. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius

12. "Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

13. "It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." - Robert H. Schuller

14. "The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking." - Robert H. Schuller

15. "To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought." - Tom Robbins