OPTIMISM
Quotes
1
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
— Duke Ellington
2
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.
— Elbert Hubbard
3
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that will never happen.
— James Russell Lowell
4
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
— James Branch Cabell
5
This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better.
— R. A. Campbell
6
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
7
The man who laughs has not yet heard the news.
— Bertolt Brecht
8
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.
— Sean O’Faolain
9
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
10
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
— Lily Tomlin
11
I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
— Paul Harvey
12
One must have the courage of one’s pessimism.
— Ian McEwan
Sayings
1
Pessimism is the art of finding bad news in a fortune cookie.
2
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
3
Save your good times till later
4
Always expect the worst, and when it comes, make the best of it.
5
To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.
— French proverb
6
Pessimism is the triumph of worry over matter.
7
A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities.
8
The man who says it cannot be done should not interpret the man doing it.
— Chinese proverb
9
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
10
An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.
11
Let a smile be your umbrella.
12
Put on a happy face.
Jokes
1
What’s the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist created the plane; a pessimist created the seat belts.
2
During his whistle stop campaign for the presidency in 1948, Harry Truman is reputed to have asked a fellow in the crowd before him how he was intending to vote. “Mr. Truman,” came the reply, “I wouldn’t vote for you if yours was the only name on the ballot.” Truman turned to an aid and instructed, “Put that man down as doubtful.”
3
A passerby stopped to watch a Little League game in progress, and after a few minutes asked one of the boys in the dugout the score.
“Oh, we are behind twelve to nothing,” was the answer. “Gee, you must be kind of discouraged,” the spectator commented.
“Discouraged? Why should I be discouraged?” asked the kid with a big grin. “Our team hasn’t gotten to bat
yet.”
4
You know those seed catalogues? I think the pictures are posed by professional flowers getting $50 an hour. I don’t consider gardening so much growing flowers as burying seeds.