Optimistic Quotes

781 quotes by 587 authors

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe… — Nicholas Sparks
THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon.… — Rick Riordan
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can… — Dylan Thomas
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish… — Margaret Atwood
Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible. — Robert Jordan
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. — Norman Vincent Peale
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. — William James
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. — David Hume
You decide for yourself when it will hurt. — Per Petterson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. — Henry David Thoreau
My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic… — Anne Rice
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space. — Carl Sagan
All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder,… — Suzanne Collins
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the… — Wallace Stegner
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. — Eoin Colfer
Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke.… — David Levithan
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics donâ€™t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection… — Stephen Colbert
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. — Ezra Pound
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion — Voltaire
Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just… — Stephenie Meyer

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