I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace this one.
—James Baldwin
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
—Lisa Alther
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
—Colin Powell
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
—Havelock Ellis
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
—James Branch Cabell
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
—Peter Ustinov
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
—Robert G. Allen
For myself I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
—Winston Churchill
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
—Susan J. Bissonette
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
—Oscar Wilde
I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.
—Jojo Moyes in Foreign Fruit
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
—George Jean Nathan
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
—Bill Vaughan
When you don't set up something to look forward to, the little things frequently get to you.
—Daniel Chidiac in Who Says You Can't? YOU DO