Optimism Quotes – 79 Sayings For Positive Thinking, Faith and Hope (2024)

Are you looking for rousing optimism quotes and sayings for positive thinking? Then you've come to the right place. I personally use wisdom, quotes and sayings about a confident attitude to life primarily to keep my hope and motivation in the fight against the Environmental problems of our time steadily at 100 percent.

Because everyone has one or two of those days when their confidence wanes and they feel like giving up, resigning or throwing it all away. A hopeful mindset then creates new inspiration. But no matter what problems you want to solve: rousing optimism quotes ensure that you solve them faster.

That's why, in this article, I'm presenting you with short, snappy quotes for positive thinking that I think are particularly inspiring. Sayings that will also give you and many other people a lot of positive energy. Let's go!

My please: Keep in mind that many of the quotes about positive thinking have been translated into English from other languages. I cannot guarantee that it is the original quote in each case. Therefore, double check them before you share them. If you like and share any of the quotes in the internet, please link this elaborately created collection. Thank you for your support!

Optimistic sayings: 79 optimism quotes for positive thoughts and new hope

Pessimistic sayings like "You can't change anything on your own anyway" or "you won't get far with that idea" prevent many people in our society from bringing about positive change. Because they discourage. But they only discourage people if they are not fully convinced of themselves and think positively.

So that you can achieve all your goals and challenges with full energy and confidence you should definitely let yourself be carried away by the following optimistic quotes.

Quotes for positive thinking #1-10

1. "Be the change you wish to see in the world." (Mahatma Gandhi)
2. "What you think you create, what you feel you attract, what you imagine you become." (Buddha)
3. "I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday." (Will Smith)
4. "Positive thinking is - at worst - a draw." (Ernst Ferstl)
5. "You can't think negative and expect something positive." (Unknown)
6. "If you want to accomplish something positive, you should know how to say no." (Pavel Kosorin)
7. "Optimistic is the worldview which places the existence higher than the nothingness and thus affirms the world and life as something intrinsically valuable." (Albert Schweitzer)
8. "Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." (Dalai Lama)
9. "Even the stones placed in one's path can be made into something beautiful." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
10. "Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life." (Mark Twain)

Quotes for positive thinking #11-20

11. "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." (Oliver Goldsmith)
12. "The true optimists are not convinced that everything will go well. But they are convinced that not everything will go wrong." (Friedrich Schiller)
13. "A pessimist is an optimist with experience." (Unknown)
14. "For the optimist life is not the problem but already the solution." (Marcel Pagnol)
15. "The greatest people are those who are able to give hope." (Jean Jaurès)
16. "Complete carelessness and an unshakable confidence are the essentials of a happy life." (Thomas Aquinas)
17. "The true art of living consists in seeing the miraculous in the everyday." (Pearl S. Buck)
18. "Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well." (Tom Felton)
19. "Focus on the solution, not on the problem." (Jim Rohn)
20. "Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain." (Henry Ford)

Mindset Tip: Mistakes are great - they are opportunities. Do you see it that way too? You just have to make sure that you always learn from them. Under Error quotes I'll introduce you to other sayings that go well with it.

Quotes for positive thinking #21-30

21. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." (Marcus Aurelius)
22. "Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." (William James)
23. "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." (Confucius)
24. "As soon as an optimist sees a light which does not exist, a pessimist will find a way to blow it out." (Giovanni Guareschi)
25. "Your eye can make the world dim or bright for you: As thou lookest upon it, it will weep or laugh." (Friedrich Rückert)
26. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." (James Branch Cabell)
27. "I like people who give me strength instead of taking it away." (Unknown)
28. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." (Thomas Alva Edison)
29. "There are always flowers for those who want to see them." (Henri Matisse)
30. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." (Albert Einstein)

Good to know: There are also people who are generally compulsively optimistic. Their behavior often has the opposite effect to what you would generally expect. More about the so-called Toxic positivity I explain in the linked blog post.

Quotes for positive thinking #31-40

31. "Positive things can be increased. Negative only deepen." (Erhard Blanck)
32. "You get a head start in life if you tackle where others talk first." (John F. Kennedy)
33. "An optimist is a person who thinks everything is half as bad or twice as good." (Heinz Rühmann)
34. "The only dung on which nothing grows is the pessimist." (Theodor Heuss)
35. "The hopelessness is already the anticipated defeat." (Karl Jaspers)
36. "When the morning’s freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate." (Dag Hammarskjöld)
37. "Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back." (Marcus Aurelius)
38. "A positive attitude towards solvable problems is already half the battle." (Ernst Ferstl)
39. "Even skyscrapers started at the bottom once." (Hanno Nühm)
40. "The real secret of success is enthusiasm." (Walt Disney)

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Quotes for positive thinking #41-50

41. "The real secret of success is enthusiasm." (Walter Percy Chrysler)
42. "Everyone has a chance to improve part of the world - one's self." (Paul de Lagarde)
43. "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." (Paulo Coelho)
44. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Russell)
45. "Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still." (Chinese wisdom)
46. "Only the one who walks his own way can’t be overtaken." (Marlon Brando)
47. "Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter." (William Rogers)
48. "Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great." (Niccoló Machiavelli)
49. "Mans only real enemies are his own negative thoughts." (Albert Einstein)
50. "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." (Henry Ford)

Quotes for positive thinking #51-60

51. "Don't spend time looking for an obstacle. Maybe there isn't one." (Franz Kafka)
52. "If this day was not your friend, at least it was your teacher." (Unknown)
53. "Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter." (Immanuel Kant)
54. "You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself." (Shamsoddin Mohammad Hafes)
55. "You may give out, but never give up." (Mary Crowley)
56. "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." (Henry David Thoreau)
57. "Laughing and smiling are gates through which the good may reach our hearts." (Christian Morgenstern)
58. "Sometimes there's nothing you can do but keep doing." (Unknown)
59. "If you really want something, you'll find a way. And if you don't, you'll find an excuse." (Jim Rohn)
60. "Never give up on what's important to you just because it's not easy." (Albert Einstein)

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Quotes for positive thinking #61-70

61. "If someone says, «You can't do that», remember: those are their limits, not yours." (Unknown)
62. "The purest form of insanity is to leave everything the same and the same time hope that things will change." (Albert Einstein)
63. "If people knew how much thoughts affect their health, they would either think less or think differently." (Andreas Tenzer)
64. "Stumbling sometimes gets you forward; you just must not fall and stay down." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
65. "You're only afraid when you disagree with yourself." (Hermann Hesse)
66. "Resignation is the selfishness of the weak." (Jörg Berger)
67. "The optimist is no less often wrong than the pessimist, but he lives more joyfully." (Charlie Rivel)
68. "Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing." (Friedrich Schiller)
69. "Every problem is an opportunity in disguise." (John Adams)
70. "One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger." (Proverb)

Quotes for positive thinking #71-79

71. "If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too." (Joseph Rudyard Kipling)
72. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." (Helen Keller)
73. "Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?" (Marcus Aurelius)
74. "Even if everything breaks, the shards reflect the light." (Kontra K)
75. "I'm still hoping to leave the world a little better than I found it." (Jim Henson)
76. "Let's try to err firmly on the side of positive for once, in any matter." (Christian Morgenstern)
77. "Nothing releases more positivity in us than processing the negative." (Paul Mommertz)
78. "Even bad prospects can give rise to good insights." (Ernst Ferstl)
79. "There is only one right attitude to life: the positive." (Paul Schibler)

Frequently asked questions about optimism

Use optimism quotes as a source of inspiration for yourself and others

Do you sometimes have the feeling that everything in the world is somehow getting worse and worse? That's deceptive! I have explained why this is the case and how you can look at the world as soberly as it really is in the Book "Factfulness" by Hans Grosling learned You can secure it here*.

Thinking positively is the key to happiness - and if you expect bad things, you are very likely to get bad things. Hope, enthusiasm and optimism are the things that should drive everyone every day in everything they do.

I hope that these quotes about positive thinking will give you that decisive boost of confidence once again. For example, that it is worth standing up for environmental protection or a certain vision.

Can you think of any other optimism quotes and sayings about hope that are still missing here? Then please write me a comment!

Stay optimistic,

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