Quotes About Optimism

The individual who is actively engaged in a struggle, or in striving toward an important goal, does not come up with pessimistic philosophies concerning the meaninglessness or the futility of life.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is simply "a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

It would have been very bad," he said, "but I never allow my mind to think in that way.

God sees us as men and women in whom and through whom He can do a great work. He sees us as already serene, confident, and cheerful. He sees us not as pathetic victims of life, but masters of the art of living; not wanting sympathy, but imparting help to others, and therefore thinking less and less of ourselves, and full, not of self-concern, but of love and laughter and a desire to serve. . .

I failed once in the past, so I will probably fail in the future" is neither logical nor rational. To conclude "I can't" in advance, without trying, and in the absence of any evidence to support the inevitability of failure, is not rational. We should be more like the man who was asked if he could play the piano. "I don't know," he said. "What do you mean you don't know?" he was asked. "I have never tried," he replied.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

A picture began to emerge of a woman who possessed hope and optimism and gumption in spades in spite of wretched relatives and a world that never took much notice of her.

Volim da porazgovaram, od razgovora sve postane svjetlije i svježije, kao da se prozori na ku?i otvore... Nisam naro?ito pametan, niti mislim da je to važno, važnije je da je ?ovjek pravedan i da se ne truje ružnim mislima. Mu?no bi bilo živjeti obeshrabren, treba vidjeti i onu stranu koja nije protiv ?ovjeka.

Where's the sun?" he asked me once. "Behind the clouds." "Is it always there? Even when it's cloudy?" "Always." "Could we see it if we climbed to the top of that poplar?" "No." "And if we were on a minaret?" "No. The clouds are above the minaret." "And if a hole was made in the clouds?" Indeed, why don't people make holes in clouds for boys who love the sun?

Verovala sam u nešto. U život, u tebe, u decu, u nešto nepoznato što ?e biti lepo, u neku nadu, svejedno u šta. Starost je ružna najviše zato što nam uzme sposobnost da u nešto verujemo.

If a sparrow cannot swallow the mouthful of the Anka-bird, it will still eat as much as it can. You cannot scoop up the whole sea with a jug, but whatever you scoop up is also the sea.

Ali mi se, ipak, nadamo boljemu, uvijek, više vjerujemo svojoj želji nego svome strahu, i obi?no s pravom

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

To cheer us up on our first day on the road I made jam sandwiches for breakfast and they tasted hopeful.

because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.

certain concrete signs of optimism were no longer as central a part of the school experience: the smell of pencils, for instance, with their suggestion of woodshop and campgrounds and the promise of some precocious kid's standout in-class essay.

Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?

It is optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?

The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.

The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so the present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now. I'm the only one who does.