Quotes About Optimism

We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain future now.

Oricum, de cum m-am trezit din somn am început s? am idei mai rezonabile. AÈ™a sunt eu: seara la culcare nu v?d decât partea neagr? a lucrurilor È™i m? trezesc cu idei diferite dimineaÈ›a.

Today was the worst day of his professional life, but tomorrow would be better.

Mordecai was not one to worry about the things he couldn't change. His desk was covered with the battles he could win.

Don't cry for me. And don't cry for the memories. Never look back, there's too much left to do.

Maybe the next world will be a pleasanter place than this

had been the marigold turning to face the sun.

But if Mary sometimes lapsed into pessimism, she never forgot she was a queen.

We are not forced to accept the things that grieve us

My name is John Hodgman; you live on the planet Earth; and everything is going to be fine.

He had in abundance youth's most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

Churchill Park have their bellies turned toward the sun.

What young writer is attracted to a sunny disposition?

The War Is Not Over. The second Death Star is destroyed. The Emperor and his powerful enforcer, Darth Vader, are rumored to be dead. The Galactic Empire is in chaos. Across the galaxy, some systems celebrate, while in others Imperial factions tighten their grip. Optimism and fear reign side by side. And while the Rebel Alliance engages the fractured forces of the Empire, a lone Rebel scout uncovers a secret Imperial meeting…

I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. - To Sorrow

I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.

All signs were pointing upward; his wheel was revolving skyward.

I refuse to 'look up.' Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

producing Mr. Reilly in the abundant flesh.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.

The only remedy, in fact, is an enhanced skepticism that would resolutely associate too evident optimism with probable foolishness and that would not associate intelligence with the acquisition, the deployment, or, for that matter, the administration of large sums of money.

To these there are no answers; no one knows, and anyone who presumes to answer does not know he doesn't know. But one thing is certain: there will be another of these episodes and yet more beyond. Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.