Top 285 Optimistic Quotes

I think 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.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we’re in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

I’m all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.

I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life. I try not to take anything too seriously. I try to – and I do – find a ton of joy and happiness in my life, and I think that helps you stay youthful.

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist – I’m not sure which way it goes.

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They’ve done a lot of research showing if you’re an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you’re a sad, depressed, negative person.

When you do something in your life and you know it’s going to work, you have to be optimistic.

I’m very optimistic. I’m happy-go-lucky, I guess. I try to be.

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person – you already feel fortunate.

Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.

I like to write, and I try to be positive and optimistic.

I choose to feel optimistic, because I don’t think I could get out of bed if I didn’t.

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I’m optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I’m generally a very optimistic guy.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, ‘You-left-me’ songs. I thought, ‘Why don’t I count my blessings by looking at what I have?’ I’m pretty much an optimistic guy.

I am one of those guys that’s an optimist. I am always optimistic. I don’t know how you can be any other way.

You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

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.

Talking about income inequality, even if you’re not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.

Actually, I’m a very optimistic person.

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

My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats – in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I’m an old man, born in 1969.

One of my favorite indicators of the near-term trend for the economy is auto sales, since folks tend to buy a car when they are feeling optimistic about their financial circumstances.

Humans are ridiculous. We’re all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it’s optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you’re never going to get there, and that’s OK.

I’m very optimistic about the future, because… Okay, with Audra McDonald, even just on Broadway, they cast her in shows that are usually not played by African-American women, so she’s very inspiring to me just because of that, you know what I mean?

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders – not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

It’s all about believing in yourself and knowing your worth and being optimistic and really just loving yourself for who you are.

I like athletic men, but not like Arnold Schwarzenegger, though he’s gorgeous. A guy’s got to be sexy, optimistic, like to have a good time.

I’m feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

I stand for a Germany that is more colorful, cool, and optimistic about the future.

I’ve experienced WWE twice now, and I know that I do not enjoy that place. The second time I really had optimistic hopes and dreams, but I know I would never go back there.

I’m an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.

I am the most optimistic organizer in this country.

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

I’m afraid I’m very optimistic – and moralistic.

I’ve been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.

I am often offered roles or women who are very strong, uncompromising. But it’s fun to do ‘Manglehorn,’ where I’m playing somebody who’s very open, very optimistic, very positive. I don’t want to bore myself.

I’m not optimistic for my country. I don’t see how we’re ever going to project our influence and our standing and our power outside the E.U. Britain’s voice is going to diminish, I’m afraid.

If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don’t know. It’s hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.

I think maybe I’m just a little too optimistic? I hope for the best in every situation and want to see the good in people.

We all should be so lucky to be as optimistic as SpongeBob.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I’m optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

I’m an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that’s the party, and you live your hell on earth.

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

Although I’m perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that – feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

A developer who is not optimistic shouldn’t be a developer.

The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

I’m annoyingly optimistic.

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I’m beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

I’m dementedly optimistic, and whoever I’m with usually feels they have to balance my more wayward optimism.

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don’t extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

We’re in a period of revolutionary change. I’m optimistic. One’s self changes, and then the world changes. It’s going to begin internally, not externally.

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there’s something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

I feel close to Lloyd in ‘Say Anything’. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I’m not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

I’m a worrier. I worry about everything – I worry about the kids, my family, my health, Matt’s health. I always think the worst – and he keeps me calm, he’s really optimistic. He’s a constant support with everything.

I’m very optimistic about the future. I’m just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.