Optimistic quotes

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Martin Amis

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Helen Keller

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Bill Vaughan

The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.

Darren Shan

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Albert Barnes

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

George Will

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Voltaire

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

A pessimist to an optimist is a realist.

Mass Effect

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

Victor Hugo

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

René Descartes

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

Henry Havelock Ellis