(573 quotes found)
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else”
Winston Churchill
“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“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
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Oscar Wilde
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose”
Kahlil Gibran
“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
John Heywood
“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.”
Richard M. DeVos
