Quotes About Optimism

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

They spoke little of the past. Instead, they looked to all that life here in this new land, America, would bring them and their children. Their heads and hearts were full of dreams and plans for the future, and the years together

If people don't change their minds, there's no hope for the human race.

Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

When you see life as an adventure, your hopes and dreams are never more than a day away!

To quote the philosopher Max Roser: "Three things are true at the same time. The world is much better; the world is awful; and the world can be much better." There is plenty of good work to do.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

t does it take to hope? everything.

However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

Our new millennium began, and it seemed a little bit possible--though surely if we examined the thought too closely, it would evaporate--that a brighter time might be ahead; we have, after all, the round, clean slate of the new number, the row of zeros after the initial digit in 2000.

When they're faced with new challenges, they think, "I can do this.

Their operating principle is, "Look out world—here I come.

As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.

images can bring hopefulness.

The Beatles did everything with down-to-earth humor, honesty, optimism, style, charisma, irreverence, intelligence, and a particularly spiky disdain for falseness.

Carter delivered his diagnosis of America's malaise, Reagan responded, "I find no national malaise. I find nothing wrong with the American people." He even had the daring to tell voters they should reelect Carter "if he instills in you pride for your country and a sense of optimism about our future"—a brilliant parry that just reminded people how much they wanted to feel patriotic again.

I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.

steer clear of any chatty, bearded weirdo who wants to tell you how terrible the future will be. Go about your business and assume that life will be okay. Without the evil influence of devils, you should be fine.

Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

Leaders are dealers in hope.

Expecting the best is not about always being right. It is about a belief in yourself and in your team.