Optimism Quotes

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Robin Williams

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

Lloyd Alexande

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

Helen Kelle

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Paul Fussell

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.

Richard M. DeVos

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 Bonhoeffe

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Optimism is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Voltaire, Candide

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

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

Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde