Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
~ Jane Austen

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
~ Ambrose Bierce

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
~ Francis H. Bradley

My sun sets to rise again.
~ Robert Browning

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
~ Albert Camus

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
~ Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.
~ Winston Churchill

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
~ Edward Dahlberg

A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.
~ Frank Dane

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
~ Emile Durkheim

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
~ Havelock Ellis

Vote with your life; vote yes!
~ Das Energi

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
~ William Faulkner

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
~ Robert Frost

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
~ Antonio Gramsci

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
~ Ron Jaworski

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
~ John F. Kennedy

Optimism is the opium of the people.
~ Milan Kundera

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
~ Ring Lardner