OPTIMISM

Related Subjects: Cheerfulness, Confidence, Courage, Faith, Hope

1. The barren optimistic sophistries
   Of comfortable moles.—MATTHEW ARNOLD, To a Republican Friend
   

2. I find earth not grey but rosy
   Heaven not grim but fair of hue.—BROWNING, At the "Mermaid"
   

3. God's in his Heaven
   All's right with the world!—BROWNING, Pippa Passes
   

4. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.—BRANCH CABELL, The Silver Stallion
   

5. The noble temptation to see too much in everything.—G. K. CHESTERTON, Robert Browning
   

6. In short, if anything turns up.—DICKENS, David Copperfield
   

7. The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Dance of Life
   

8. Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant—the digitalis of failure.—ELBERT HUBBARD, A Thousand and One Epigrams
   

9. The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

10. There's a good time coming, boys!
    A good time coming.CHARLES MACKAY, The Good Time Coming
    

11. All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.—VOLTAIRE, Candide
    

12. Optimism is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.—VOLTAIRE, Candide
    

13. What will be will be well, for what is is well.—WALT WHITMAN, To Think of Time
    

14. Say you are well, or all is well with you,
    And God shall hear your words and make them true.—ELLA W. WILCOX, Speech
    

15. 'Twixt optimist and pessimist
    The difference is droll:
    The optimist sees the doughnut,
    The pessimist, the hole.—MCLANDBURGH WILSON, Optimist and Pessimist