32 Movie Quotes about Optimism (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Nov 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about optimism, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Have faith in dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through.

Helene Stanley as Cinderella in Cinderella (1950)

2 Yes, it's only in my dreams. But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty (1959)

3 Remember, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

4 There's no engines. -What are they planning on racing with? Hopes and dreams?

Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious

5 Call us brutal, say sadistic and grotesquely optimistic. 'Cause way down deep inside, we've gotta dream.

Mandy Moore as Rapunzel in Tangled

6 That's a fact, Miss. It's like they say: it ain't never so bad that it can't be worse.

Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut in The African Queen (1952)

7 You know, some people think of death as a negative thing, but you see how wrong they are, don't you? What could be more beautiful and more thrilling than eternal rest?

Anjanette Comer as Aimée Thanatogenos in The Loved One (1965)

8 I must say I've enjoyed this new perspective... looking up instead of down.

Carol Channing as Fanny in The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars

9 Well, Peter, you shouldn't be afraid, even in a terrible place like this, because there's always hope.

Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

10 Hope for the best, work for the rest. And never say never again

Christopher Plummer as Henri Le Pigeon in An American Tail

32 Movie Quotes about Optimism (+ Sound Clips)

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