Quotes About Optimism

Mama:...you can keep trying. You can get brave and try some more. You don't have to give up. Jessie: I'm NOT giving up. This IS the other thing I'm trying. And I'm sure there are some other things that might work, but MIGHT work isn't good enough any more. I need something that WILL work. THIS will work. That's why I picked it.

However, what lingered in my mind was that one person's dissatisfaction. We tend to notice what's wrong rather than what's right.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Successful people never drink from a glass that's half empty.

People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Good news is at least the climb down will be easier. Thanks, gravity, for not always being a bitch.

Despite everything, this is a very good day. Remember that, both of you. There will be horrors in the world that you won't be able to solve without some anguish. But it doesn't mean you can't find moments of joy.

Cheer up, my dear," said Rose, leaning affectionately on her husband's arm; "it is altogether addition and not subtraction; you have not lost a daughter but gained a son.

Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again.

It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travellers. The sensible approach would be to expect the worst, the very worst; that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows, with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory.

honest, focused, positive, and authentic

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

there's the right kind of unrealistic and the wrong kind of unrealistic.

Dr. Arada, who is what her marital partner Overse calls a "terminal optimist

They ranged from bleakly depressing (due to an excess of realism) to highly unlikely (due to an excess of optimism).

Never lose hope. There is always a battle going on that you don't see.

Anything is possible where faith is concerned.

No phantom of the future cast a shadow upon our sunny path

If the war was to be over by Christmas, as many believed, or at the latest by Easter 1915, tens of thousands of soldiers might be killed or wounded before the guns fell silent. Every army believed that it could crush its opponents within a few months.

Seeking to encourage Collins, Churchill replied with his favourite Boer saying, 'All will come right.' On

Such hope. It breaks your heart.