169 Optimistic Person Quotes

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I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best. — Jurgen Klopp

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. — Walter Winchell

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. — Robert Breault

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston Churchill

I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out — Roger Meddows Taylor

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment. — Aziz Ansari

A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons. — Shiv Khera

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. — Jules Renard

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. — Steve Jobs

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

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Mark Twain

An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive. — William Arthur Ward

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. — Winston Churchill

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. — Colin Powell

Short Optimistic Person Quotes

  • Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. — Dalai Lama
  • An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. — Irv Kupcinet
  • Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. — Norman Cousins
  • I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists. — Bill Ackman
  • Optimism is the true moral courage — Ernest Shackleton
  • I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. — Albert Einstein
  • The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward
  • An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. — Henry Ford
  • My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. — Henry Rollins

Optimistic Person Image Quotes

Optimistic person quote Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Optimistic Attitude Quotes

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres

A pessimist sees only 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 Louis Levinson

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry S. Truman

Optimistic person quote A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. — Christian D. Larson

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, And too happy to permit the presence of trouble. — Christian D. Larson

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

Optimistic person quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

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

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays. — David Landes

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. — Zig Ziglar

When you have an optimistic attitude and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you. — Victoria Osteen

Optimistic Life Quotes

Remember, when something leaves your life, God is making room for something much better to enter! Get ready! — Paula White

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

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise - Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise — Oscar Wilde

Optimistic person quote Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things. — Alice Herz-Sommer

You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made. — Michael Beckwith

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

Optimistic person quote Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are...

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. — Cameron Sinclair

There are probably multiple reasons for that. It’s easier to be a pessimist than an optimist. It’s hard to guess how life is going to improve; it’s easier to extrapolate how it’s going to get worse. — Naval Ravikant

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. - Jack Layton

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. — Jack Layton

Being An Optimist Quotes

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that. — Henry Rollins

To be an entrepreneur, you need to be optimistic about the fact that you’re creating something that other people are going to find value in. — Naval Ravikant

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work. — Owen Wilson

Optimistic person quote Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having every
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. — Randy Pausch

An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. — Haruki Murakami

Optimistic person quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop

It made sense to be pessimistic in the past, but it makes sense to be an optimist today. — Naval Ravikant

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. — Earl Weaver

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings. — I. F. Stone

Optimism Quotes

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

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton

Optimistic person quote A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness — Saint Augustine

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

We turn not older with years but newer every day. — Emily Dickinson

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting. - Amartya Sen

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting. — Amartya Sen

Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places? — Robert Noyce

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age — Plato

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

Being Optimistic Quotes

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Henry David Thoreau

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful. - Conor McGregor

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful. — Conor McGregor

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. - J. R. R. Tolkien

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Optimistic person quote Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. — Deepak Chopra

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. — Nelson Mandela

If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it. — Nicholas Winton

Optimistic person quote Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so. — David Brooks

One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect. — William Carlos Williams

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Kahlil Gibran

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future. — Frank Gehry

Optimism In Life Quotes

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Deepak Chopra

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism. — Gilda Radner

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. — Paul J. Meyer

Optimistic person quote Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!
Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!

I might rap about a lot of stuff, but that’s just a reflection about what I’ve been through. But in real life, everything I do is positive. — 21 Savage

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. — George A. Sheehan

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. — Paul J. Meyer

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. — Christian D. Larson

Always look on the bright side of life. — Graham Chapman

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

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. — Brian Tracy

Positive Person Quotes

Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money. — Christian Finnegan

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help. — John C. Maxwell

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you. — Nouman Ali Khan

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. — Lao Tzu

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. — Dalai Lama

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. - Brian Tracy

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. — Brian Tracy

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day — Deepak Chopra

Optimism And Positivity Quotes

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. — Helen Keller

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up. — Pete du Pont

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler

I find negativity is infectious and also very depressing. Choose friends who you admire and aspire to be like! Positive, driven and determined. — Martyn Ford

Always try to give back that sense of belief and positivity. — Martyn Ford

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. — Seth Godin

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. — W. Eugene Smith

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 DeVos

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others. — Chetan Bhagat

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

I Am An Optimist Quotes

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass. — Louis Zamperini

Although we live in an unstable region that has challenges and different viewpoints, I am very optimistic by nature and I believe that the UAE today is more like a light that illuminates a dark land. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. — Cat Stevens

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. — Max Lerner

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. — Winston Churchill

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. — Bill Gates

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist. — Jan Smuts

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am. — Larry Kramer

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. — Vaclav Havel

Stay Optimistic Quotes

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

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. — Roderick Haig-Brown

Optimistic young adults stay healthier throughout middle age and, ultimately, live longer than pessimists. — Angela Duckworth

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life. — Walt Disney

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams. — Hugh Hefner

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

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy. — Charles Stanley

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind. — William J. Clinton

When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords. — Charles R. Swindoll

GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal. — Linda Kaplan Thaler

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More Optimistic Person Quotes

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.) — Robert M. Sapolsky

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him. — Norman Vincent Peale

The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate. — Narendra Modi

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. — Don Marquis

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do. — Norman Reedus

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least. — Michael Stipe

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them. — Christian D. Larson

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows. — Felix Adler

Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. — Christian D. Larson

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. — Ray Bradbury

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person. — Brian Tracy

I'm a very optimistic person. I have the chance to listen to so much phenomenal music. Connecting with social networking to create music is a progression of what electronic music does anyway - it connects people. — Paul van Dyk

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history. — A. E. Housman

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu — Victor Cherbuliez

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. — Mark Twain

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person. — Brian Tracy

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. — Michelle Williams

Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop. — Brian Tracy

One thing I've learned from my short time trying to be a farmer is that our farmers have to be the bravest, most optimistic people in the world. To go back to the land year after year, after what nature throws at them and the world economy does to their income, takes a special kind of person. — Sara Henderson

Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure. — Sandra Bullock

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken. — Mamie Gummer

You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person. — Nathan Crowley

What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl. — Jennifer Belle

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative. — Norah O'Donnell

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person. — Greg Rusedski

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard

I'm a really optimistic, positive person, but I've been heartbroken on a social and political level, heartbroken on a personal level and anywhere in between. I think heartbreak is one of the best artist's catalysts for creation. That doesn't mean one should look for heartbreak; I don't agree with that. At a certain point you can use heartbreaks from other people's stories, your own life or before. You don't have to dwell on heartbreak. — Xaviera Simmons

My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's the way he approached his life. The way he approached his life - he was the eternal optimist. He was the most optimistic person that I've ever known. Even in the face of this diagnosis with cancer, he was filled with optimism about what he could do and what he could accomplish. — Edward Kennedy

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat. — Hector Tobar

I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person. — Anna Quindlen

I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed. — Regina Spektor

I think that I'm a really optimistic person. — Jason Rezaian

An entrepreneur... is a person of action, one who possesses an unnatural overload of two attributes: optimism and determination. Because entrepreneurs are optimistic, they don't see barriers; because they're determined, they never quit. Individuals who posses extreme amounts of optimism and determination get things done. — Jim Clifton

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all. — Don Marquis

My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person. — Rayvon Owen

Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me' is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can't wait for people to hear it! — Shane Filan

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