50+ Optimism Quotes That Will Never Fail to Inspire

Candide optimism quotes

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• “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?” ― Voltaire, Candide: or, Optimism

• “Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.” ― Voltaire, Candide

• “You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin.” ― Voltaire, Candide

• “If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?” ― Voltaire, Candide

• “Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.” ― Voltaire, Candide

• “But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.” ― Voltaire, Candide

• “Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.” ― Voltaire, Candide

• “I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. ” ― Voltaire, Candide: or, Optimism

• “What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.” ― Voltaire, Candide

• “He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.” ― Voltaire, Candide

Helen Keller optimism quotes

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• “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.” ― Helen Keller

• "The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things." — Helen Keller, "O! Brave New World That Has Such People In't," Red Cross Magazine, September, 1919

• "Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face." — Helen Keller, Quoted in Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson, Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1964, from letter to a five-year-old blind child, news report of May 31, 1955

• "I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it." — Helen Keller, Speech written by Helen Keller about the blindness of society to its problems, 1912

• "A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life." — Helen Keller, Teacher, 1955

• "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows." — Helen Keller, Quoted in "Sundry Interviews," A Magazet

• "Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. . . . It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other." — Helen Keller, Speech delivered at the Kent Street Reformed Church, Brooklyn, NY, 1927

• "To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted." — Helen Keller, Speech at the Wright-Humason School, New York City, Winter 1921

Winston Churchill quotes optimism

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• “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” — Winston Churchill

• “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill

• “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.” — Winston Churchill

• "Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." — Winston Churchill

• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill

• "The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE." — Winston Churchill

• "Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them." — Winston Churchill

• "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." — Winston Churchill

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." — Winston Churchill

• "If you're going through hell, keep going." — Winston Churchill

• "Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about." — Winston Churchill

Bible quotes about optimism

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• "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." — Jeremiah 29:11

• "And God saw all things that he had made, and they were very good"— Genesis 1:31

• “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” — Joshua 1:9

• "I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts that they may not turn from me. I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and soul." — Jeremiah 32:40-41

Bible quotes about optimism

• “Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.” — Lamentations 3:21–23

• “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.  And all who believed were together and had all things in common.” — Acts 2:42-44

• “And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” — Revelation 21:3-4

Funny optimism quotes

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• “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles Schulz

• “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” — Benjamin Franklin

• “I’ll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that’s probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess.” — Cassandra Duffy

• “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” — Dalai Lama

• “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” — Winnie the Pooh

• “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” — Robin Williams

• “I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” — Ron White

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

Optimism quotes for kids

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• “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” — Victor Hugo

• “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” — Roy T. Bennett

• “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down” — Charlie Chaplin

• “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Alphonse Karr

• “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” — Marcus Aurelius

• “They can because they think they can.” — Virgil

• “Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.” — Richard Bach