Quotes About Optimism

Youve got to be [an] optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

The worst thing that happens to you. May be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you!!

Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

It's three hours, and I know I probably won't feel up for it, but if I'm going to feel rotten, I'd rather feel rotten watching something wonderful than just sitting in the living room, looking at the wall.

Smile, but keep your powder dry.

Ik heb tot dusver ondervonden dat op deze tocht niets voortdurend erger wordt dan het al is. Na klimmen volgt afdalen, regen houdt ook wel weer eens op, moeras wordt opgevolgd door droog terrein en zelfs de stenen waarop ik mijn enkels verzwik, zijn soms over lange afstanden afwezig. Kortom: net als altijd in het leven, een soort specifiek gemiddelde van ellende.

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today

As it was, getting out of the car that night Coolidge said to Jager: "It's wonderful to ride in a horseless wagon." Then a pause: "But it won't amount to much!

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.

her predicament. In his autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt offered this bit of Stoic-inspired advice: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

Many, on hearing Ebert's story, would use the word unlucky to describe him, but a much more fitting word would be unvanquished. During the last decade of his life, he experienced enough setbacks for several lifetimes and yet was not embittered by his fate. It was a triumph of the human spirit.

the regular practice of negative visualization has the effect of transforming Stoics into full-blown optimists.

This might sound a bit silly, but to someone who has not lost his capacity for joy, the world is a wonderful place. To such a person, glasses are amazing; to everyone else, a glass is just a glass, and it is half empty to boot.

The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.

A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.

So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

I have believed the best of every man.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.