“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.”
Richard M. DeVos

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
James Branch Cabell (1879 – 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926

“Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.”
Robert G. Allen

“For myself I am an optimist–it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
Winston Churchill

“Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”
Walter Winchell

“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

“If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
Unknown Author

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
Oscar Wilde

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”
Bo Bennett

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
Alex Tan

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Susan J. Bissonette

“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”
Daniel L. Reardon

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
Robert Fulghum

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
Jimmy Dean

“Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.”
Author Unknown

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

“I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.”
Shirley Maclaine

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
Walt Disney

“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”
Author Unknown

“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

“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

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammed Ali