1. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

- Lucy Larcom

2. Be an optimist. Thinking positively will surely drive stress, pressure and frustrations away.

- Melinda Bauer, Managing Emotions

3. No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

- William Inge

4. The optimist looks at the horizon and sees an opportunity; the pessimist peers into the distance and fears a problem.

- William Arthur Ward

5. Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.

- Christine Caine

6. No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

- David Hume

7. Self-belief, optimism, and hard work, these things don’t guarantee to get any of us to the top, but they at least give us a fighting chance.

- Jason Ayres

8. What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

- Bob Iger

9. An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.

- Albert Schweitzer

10. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank

11. It’s not whether the glass is half empty or half full, but who’s pouring the water.

- Mark Cuban

12. Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

- Elbert Hubbard

13. What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

- Raymond Error

14. Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

- Gary Johnson

15. The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

- Tom Bodett

16. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

17. It’s not that optimism solves all of life’s problems; it is just that it can sometimes make the difference between coping and collapsing.

- Lucy MacDonald, Learn to Be an Optimist

18. Beyond each impenetrable expanse of thundercloud obscurity reigns a boundless canopy of brilliant sapphire blue.

- Cara Fox

19. In the hour of adversity, be not without hope; for crystal rain falls from black clouds.

- Nizami

20. 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

21. Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

- Mary Lou Retton

22. Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

- Thomas L. Friedman

23. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

- George Bernard Shaw

24. I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

- Paul Theroux

25. It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

- Orison Swett Marden

26. It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

- Robert Breault

27. Pessimism never won any battle.

- Dwight D. Eisenhauer

28. Optimism isn’t funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It’s exaggeration.

- Steve Toltz

29. Sports uplift us. It’s celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.

- Travis Kalanick

30. To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

- Albert Schweitzer

31. Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

- Oscar Wilde

32. I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

- Patricia Ireland

33. 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

34. Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety.

- Kathleen A. Brehony

35. 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

36. Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

- Jane McGonigal

37. Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

- William Goldman

38. I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

- Jon Anderson

39. While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

- Benjamin Franklin

40. I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

- Paul Fussell

41. Optimism is life–Pessimism, slow suicide.

- William Crosby Hunter, Brass Tacs

42. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.

- Nelson Mandela

43. Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

- Nicholas M. Butler

44. 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

45. What is hope but a feeling of opt

- Wayne W. Dyer

46. The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

- Brian May

47. Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it’s necessary to being a leader.

- Gen. Rick Hillier

48. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

- Mark Twain

49. Being a pessimist closes the door to a learning opportunity while being an optimist opens wide the door for a better future, one of personal and professional development.

- Jeff Ribman, Fail Better the Next Time

50. Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

- Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay

51. I am so far from being a pessimist…on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

- Eugene O’Neill

52. Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

- Nicholas M. Butler

53. Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

- Rick Steves

54. It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

- Jimmy Buffett

55. It isn’t all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

- Gene Roddenberry

56. Be more optimistic. Pessimism is a kind of behavior that you learn . Hoping for the best and believing that everything is going to be fine in the end helps to reduce stress.

- David Brown

57. Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it’s necessary to being a leader.

- Sylvester Stallone

58. A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all–he’s walking on them.

- Leonard L. Levinson

59. Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

- Ambrose Pierce

60. My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.

- Jan Brett

61. Optimism is the opium of the people.

- Milan Kundera

62. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

63. I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

- Justice Sonia Sotomayor

64. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

65. A pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

- Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe)

66. It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

- Orison Swett Marden

67. 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

68. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns. The pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

- Khalil Gibran

69. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward

70. Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

- Voltaire

71. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

- Arthur C. Clarke

72. Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

- Marcus Aurelius

73. The optimist turns the impossible into the possible; the pessimist turns the possible into the impossible.

- William Arthur Ward

74. We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.

- Sadiq Kahn

75. The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.

- Robert Brault

76. For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

- Winston Churchill

77. Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

- Twyla Tharpe

78. Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

- Price Pritchett, Hard Optimism

79. You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

- Goldie Hawn

80. The way you look at life can determine your success. As they say, look on the bright side. Have an optimistic attitude.

- Catherine Pulsifer

81. The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

82. 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

83. My optimism for life carried through my work.

- John Dyer

84. The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

- William Arthur Ward

85. I am an optimist… I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

- Tom Hiddleston

86. Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

- Voltaire

87. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

- Alphonse Karr

88. When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

- Charles R. Swindoll

89. I am enjoying my life because things aren’t going the way I planned.

- Rohit Pandita

90. I think I am going to have to supercharge my optimism to arm myself for the battle ahead.

- Rebecca Bloom

91. I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.

- Dolores O’Riordan

92. There’s probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

- Jim Leach

93. True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

- Bibi Bourelly