Top 200 Optimism Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

52. “Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

53. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”

— Napoleon

54. “Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.”

— Anonymous

55. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

— Scott Hamilton

56. “I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.”

— Swami Vivekananda

57. “You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”

— Elon Musk

58. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

— Robert H. Schuller

59. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

— Taylor Swift

60. “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”

— Will Rogers

61. “Everything I touch is a success.”

— Louise Hay

62. “Banish doubt. When doubt is banished, abundance flourishes and anything is possible.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

63. “You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.”

— Charlie Chaplin

64. “You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.”

— Esther Hicks

65. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”

— Doris Day

66. “You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

67. “Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream, and the world will not grind you under; it will lift you up.”

— Terence McKenna

68. “Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”

— Les Brown

69. “Every cloud has a silver lining.”

— John Milton

70. “I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.”

— Louise Hay

71. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

— Helen Keller

72. “I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.”

— Billy Graham

73. “You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.”

— Robin S. Sharma

74. “The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

75. “A positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude.”

— Napoleon Hill

76. “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”

— Peace Pilgrim

77. “Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

78. “No matter how hard life is, don’t lose hope.”

— Zayn Malik

79. “I love those who can smile in trouble...”

— Leonardo da Vinci

80. “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”

— Joel Osteen

81. “Optimism is the foundation of courage.”

— Nicholas Murray Butler

82. “Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.”

— Swami Vivekananda

83. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

— Colin Powell

84. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard

85. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

— Suzanne Collins

86. “We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.”

— Joel Osteen

87. “Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith.”

— Rhonda Byrne

88. “Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.”

— Cameron Crowe

89. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”

— Oprah Winfrey

90. “Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.”

— Maya Angelou

91. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.”

— Shiv Khera

92. “America is too great for small dreams.”

— Ronald Reagan

93. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”

— William Edward Hickson

94. “Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right.”

— Joel Osteen

95. “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”

— Ronald Reagan

96. “That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: “Good.”

— Jocko Willink

97. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

98. “Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.”

— Shawn Achor

99. “Live life as if it’s rigged in your favor.”

— Rumi

100. “Be a victor, not a victim.”

— Joel Osteen