Our Optimist Club Welcomes You!

By providing hope and positive vision, Optimists bring out the best in kids. Adult volunteers join Optimist Club s to conduct positive service projects in their communities aimed at providing a helping hand to youth. With their upbeat attitude, Optimist Club members help empower young people to be the best that they can be. Every year, Optimists around the world conduct 65,000 service projects and serve well over six million young people.

Upcoming Events

The Lawrence Breakfast Optimist Tuesday Breakfast meetings will be held at Stone Hill Hotel, 6101 Rock Chalk Dr, Lawrence KS  66049 during the month of February.

The Lawrence Breakfast Optimist Club Foundation has approved their 2023-2024 budget.  Distribution of funds to various youth programs in Lawrence and Douglas  County is underway.  This year the Optimists will provide funds to the following:

New York Elementary School, Ballard Community Center, Kansas Big  Brothers and Big Sisters, Douglas County Special Olympics, Camp Quality, Optimist International Childhood Cancer, American Legion Post #14, Camp Bromelsick Boy Scouts, Van Go, Stop Gap, Lawrence Children's Choir and Just Food. 

Additionally, dictionaries are presented to 4th graders, plus multiple scholarships to graduating seniors.

Come join the Optimists and be part of a great youth focused organization.

The Optimist Creed
Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater
achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.