Top 200 Optimism Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!”

— Louise Hay

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2. “Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.”

— Louise Hay

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3. “Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

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4. “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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5. “Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

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6. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”

— Henry Ford

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7. “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”

— Joyce Meyer

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8. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

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9. “An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”

— Brian Tracy

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10. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”

— William W. Purkey

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11. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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12. “When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.”

— Zig Ziglar

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13. “You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.”

— Emmet Fox

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14. “Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.”

— Bob Marley

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15. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward, toward finding the answer.”

— Denis Waitley

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16. “Yes We Can!”

— Barack Obama

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17. “A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.”

— Napoleon Hill

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18. “Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.”

— Brian Tracy

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19. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”

— Bob Ross

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20. “Attitude is everything, so pick a good one.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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21. “The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?”

— Henry Ford

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22. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Helen Keller

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24. “Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”

— Émile Coué

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25. “I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.”

— Louise Hay

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26. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”

— Zig Ziglar

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27. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

— Gail Devers

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28. “If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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29. “Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”

— Abdul Kalam

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30. “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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31. “We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”

— Abdul Kalam

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32. “God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, He gave them to you. He will order your steps and take you where you need to be.”

— Joel Osteen

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33. “If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t you will see obstacles.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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34. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

— Desmond Tutu

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35. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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36. “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

— Helen Keller

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37. “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

— Winston Churchill

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38. “What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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39. “Don’t you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don’t come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

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40. “There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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41. “There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.”

— Rumi

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42. “No matter what’s happening, choose to be happy. Don’t focus on what’s wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things.”

— Joel Osteen

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43. “Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.”

— Joyce Meyer

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44. “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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45. “No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can’t be defeated.”

— Joel Osteen

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46. “When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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47. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”

— Mary Lou Retton

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48. “Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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49. “Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?”

— Robert Noyce

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50. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

— Orison Swett Marden

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