Great things never come from comfort zones. If you want to achieve something great, you have to get out of your comfort zone and take risks. This is the key to success. And this is what separates successful people from unsuccessful ones. They don’t give up when things get tough. They stay optimistic and continue working hard until they achieve their goals. In this blog post, we will share some of the best optimism quotes that will inspire and motivate you to achieve great things in life.

The best optimism quotes

1. Faith and optimism are cousins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

2. At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. — William Hague

3. Optimism is my best defense. — Rod Stewart

4. I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day. — Rosa Parks

5. Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. — Seamus Heaney

6. World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. — Stephen Ambrose

7. I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler. — Paul Theroux

8. I don’t find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I’m not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M. — Michael Stipe

9. Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can’t afford. — Yoko Ono

10. Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity — Max Lucado

11. There is always room for Gramsci’s ‘optimism of the will. — Noam Chomsky

12. Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly–bright, perky, chipper,  twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

13. I fInd nothIng more depressIng than optImIsm. — Paul Fussell

14. A sprinkle of magic, a ton of fun, a heap of optimism, a lot of joy, a glimmer of hope–’tis the gift of the Happy Rosy Day gratitude journal. — Zakiyya Rosebelle

15. Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism. — Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

16. I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day. — Rosa Parks

17. Optimism is my best defense. — Rod Stewart

18. Optimism is the foundation of courage. — Nicholas M. Butler

19. Optimism generates hope…hope releases dreams…dreams set goals…enthusiasm follows — Martin Seligman

20. What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan… is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down. — Rudy Giuliani

21. Optimism is life with sprinkles on top. — Susan Lendroth

22. The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective. — Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

23. Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough. — Richard M. DeVos

24. Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

25. I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler. — Paul Theroux

26. An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism. — Mary Sage Nguyen

27. Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler

28. Optimism is life with sprinkles on top. — Susan Lendroth

29. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future. — Ronald Reagan

30. Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism. — Martin Seligman

31. Optimism doesn’t make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic. — Richie Norton

32. When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

33. Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so. — Richard Branson

34. Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler

35. Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you. — Norman Vincent Peale

36. Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity — Max Lucado

37. Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Nicholas M. Butler

38. In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell

39. We try and reflect that there’s a lot of optimism, there’s a lot of positive things that are happening in ‘Silicon Valley’. — T. J. Miller

40. I think losing a child is unimaginable. It’s every person’s worst nightmare. It’s unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism. — Natalie Portman

41. Optimism is like a firefly. A bright blaze of hope, unable to be captured. — Megan Jenna

42. At a certain point, unabashed optimism becomes delusional insanity. — Matt Abrams, She’s Toxic

43. My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn’t optimism. — Robert Stone, Helping

44. There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. — Stephen Hawking

45. You need short–term paranoia to keep you alive long enough to exploit long–term optimism. — Morgan Housel

46. This didn’t sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him. — S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism

47. A sprinkle of magic, a ton of fun, a heap of optimism, a lot of joy, a glimmer of hope–’tis the gift of the Happy Rosy Day gratitude journal. — Zakiyya Rosebelle

48. For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. — Sheri L. Dew

49. 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

50. Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity — Max Lucado

Conclusion

Optimism is a powerful force that can help us to achieve our dreams and turn our lives around. No matter the situation, the best quotes about optimism can help us to stay positive and look on the bright side. So, the next time you’re feeling down, remember these quotes and let them inspire you to stay optimistic and keep pushing forward. Together we can make a better world for ourselves and for future generations.