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Quotes About Optimism

Hurting but still hoping—that is the human journey.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
If this is the worst thing that happens to me today, it's still a pretty good day.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don't go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!
~ Unknown
in the morning -- 'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it' -- ...
~ M. John Harrison
It's a funny thing how hope has a way of always hovering there in the background, even when one's gut says it's over.
~ M. William Phelps
Expect the worst and hope for the best.
~ Unknown
You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one? "If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave.
~ Unknown
Daylight follows a dark night.
~ Unknown
Hope is progress
~ Maat Morrison
La vida nos echa toda clase de tierra encima. La solución para salir del pozo está en sacudirnos y dar un paso hacia arriba. Cada uno de nuestros problemas es como un escalón hacia la libertad. Depende sólo de nosotros si lo usamos como tal
~ Unknown
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
~ Machado de Assis
É melhor cair das nuvens que de um segundo andar
~ Machado de Assis
Average people you say YOU ARE FULL OF YOURSELF just because you approach everything with positive attitude, and you never feel sorry for yourself.
~ Unknown
I am often asked whether I am an optimist or a pessimist. My reply is, "I am an optimist who worries a lot." I continue to believe that the United States banked enough international goodwill in the interval between George Washington and Barack Obama to recover from the present embarrassment - but I am not sure how extensive or lasting the harm will be, hence the worries.
~ Madeleine Albright
I am an optimist who worries a lot.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Name one hero who was happy. You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward. He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret. I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it." "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes. "I swear it," he echoed. We sat like that for a moment, hands touching. He grinned. "I feel like I could eat the world raw.
~ Madeline Miller
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity
~ Unknown
With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation
~ John Dos Passos
Finally, we choose to believe it's happening.
~ John Eldredge
It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope. RABBI JONATHAN SACKS, Celebrating Life
~ John Eldredge
positive barometers, too, wonderful things;
~ John Eldredge
the ability to hope and dream.
~ John Eldredge
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
~ John F. Kennedy