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

May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George F. Will

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
Bo Bennett

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

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

Smile when it hurts most.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

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

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
Gil Stern

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

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

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

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

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Optimists are nostalgic about the future.
Chicago Tribune

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
Douglas Jerrold

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel L. Reardon

Being an optimist after you’ve got everything you want doesn’t count.
Kin Hubbard

It doesn’t hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
Lucimar Santos de Lima

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell

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

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
Chauncey Mitchell Depew

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain

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

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
Helen Rowland

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain

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

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan J. Bissonette

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

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

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

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