Quotes About Optimism

Hope is not merely a wish that something good might happen—it is the firm confidence and desire that the promises of God will be fulfilled.

Fully engaged people believe the future can be bigger than the past, and they believe they can directly influence that bigger future. That's our No. 1 job as leaders, to convince people of those two things.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

L'optimiste, en revanche, est confiant dans le fait qu'il est possible de réaliser ses aspirations et qu'avec patience, détermination et intelligence, il finira par y arriver. De fait, le plus souvent, il y parvient.

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it. A

Martin Seligman once told me, "The best it [psychoanalysis] can do is to bring us from minus ten to zero.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

She smiled up at him, reveling in the promise of love and life and a future that looked brighter than any she could have dreamed of. "Let me get my purse.

Hope--I keep saying the word, marveling at it. Modern and world-weary, we think we are beyond it. Too wise, too jaded, we think we are past such a thing. We know what the world is, what men do to other men, and to women, and what anyone may do to a child. We have seen horrors. Executioners in uniforms. Poverty. Illness. Then It come with its threadlike feet and delicate wings. It drinks our sweat and tears, and once again we believe things are possible. [Édouard Manet]

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

But you know, as I do, that the storm will pass And that the implacable sun doesn't simply stop When obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud, Which is why I know I'll return to your house- On a Sunday that's there on the calendar- And laugh with you over a glass of grappa.

Life is a muddle. It seems a brilliant muddle, if you are an optimist; a dull one, if you aren't; but in neither case can you deny that it is the muddlers who keep it going.

He softened his voice. "Gaspar," he said, "keep your head up. Make up your mind that you'll fight to the last gasp. Why, it makes me plumb sick to see a grown man give up like you do!

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

Max E. Anders

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

We must always seek the good which is hidden in everything.

In the way of all men, once the danger was past, they forgot the hardships and looked forward to the good things in life once more.

Life is a gamble, but if your happy, you will always come out on top

Naïve optimists have celebrated science – that is to say: the techniques of mastering life that are based on science – as the road to happiness; but I think I may be allowed to ignore this [idea] completely, in view of Nietzsche's devastating criticism of those "ultimate men" who have "invented happiness". Who believes it, apart from a few overgrown children occupying academic or editorial chairs?

Maxine Rose Schur

And the heart gets watered and recovers itself. There is hope, everywhere there is hope.