Quotes About Optimism

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

— Duke Ellington

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.

— Elbert Hubbard

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that will never happen.

— James Russell Lowell

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

— James Branch Cabell

This is the best day the world has ever seen.  Tomorrow will be better.

— R. A. Campbell

An Englishman who was wrecked on a strange shore and wandering along the coast came to a gallows with a victim hanging on it, and fell down to his knees and thanked God that he at last beheld a sign of civilization.

— James Garfield

The man who laughs has not yet heard the news.

— Bertolt Brecht

Pessimists are usually kind.  The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

— Sean O’Faolain

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

— Mark Twain

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

— Lily Tomlin

I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

— Paul Harvey

One must have the courage of one’s pessimism.

— Ian McEwan