Quotes About Optimism

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

Good music always defeats bad luck.

Underneath, you would surely see that the best care passionately about their people—about their growth and success. And you would see that they themselves are comfortable in their own skins. They're real, filled with candor and integrity, optimism and humanity.

A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.

Happy days are here again,The skies above are clear again:Let us sing a song of cheer again,Happy days are here again!

I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.

Trying to force Seneca's approach: believe the worst and you will be prepared when it takes place; by believing the worst, he actually thought he was earning a happy surprise.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

what is bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

The empty swing set reminds us of this— that what is bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

Probably still believed that if you wished hard enough you could make the impossible happen.

Those who count on the good will of mankind display a delirious, idealistic optimism. Centuries of history, despite the facts, have not been able to convince them of the contrary; reason certainly will not change them. But they are so far removed from reality that their opinion is negligible.

Authentic Christianity has a horror of the pessimism of inertia. It is pessimist, profoundly pessimist in the sense that it knows that the creature comes from nothingness, and that all that issues from nothing essentially tends of itself to return to nothing: but it's optimism is incomparably deeper than it's pessimism; for it knows that the creature comes from God, and all that comes from God tends to return to Him.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

Estoy inscrito en un gimnasio. Tengo una credencial con mi fotografía... camino dos cuadras, la distancia que separa mi casa de ese gimnasio moderno, lleno de gente optimista (que me irrita) y estremecido por aquellos ritmos vocingleros que escupen los parlantes (que me irritan más aún).

Too much hope could make it harder to accept reality when the time came.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

There is no reason to look back when there is so much good in front of you

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.