Quotes About Optimism

The light of smiles shall fill again The lids that overflow with tears; And weary hours of woe and pain Are promises of happier years.

Staying positive and remaining hopeful even during stressful periods leads to greater happiness. Guarded optimism is better than pessimism.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

I decline to accept the end of man.

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?" "That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

Whatever necessities you require, work to get them. If you fail to get something, then smile and try again in a different way. If you succeed, then enjoy what you get, but without attachment.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

It should seem as if there were a few green sunny spots in the desert of life, to which we are always hastening forward: we eye them wistfully in the distance, and care not what perils or suffering we endure, so that we arrive at them at last.

I could yet always feel that it was infinitely better to be than not to be. THE

the most profitable thing we can learn from the history of booms and busts is that at times of great optimism, future returns are lowest; when things look bleakest, future returns are highest. Since risk and return are just different sides of the same coin, it cannot be any other way.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

I think we just keep going on. We keep doing what we always do and someday it'll feel right again.