Quotes and sayings on optimism

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Winston Churchill

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

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
William James

There are no hopeless situations, only people who are hopeless about them.
Dinah Shore

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis

Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.
Luci Shaw

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver

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

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw