Quotes About Optimism

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

he's stuck with them, so he makes the best of a bad situation. he's a hero because he makes something good out of a life he doesn't want.

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

If you're having a bad day, CHANGE YOUR MIND and have a good day!

Put bluntly, it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively. And sometimes maybe "responding to it constructively" means you ignore it altogether.

Acceptance doesn't mean masochistic pessimism, but joyful support of and participation in the great cosmic drama.

Hope was all that stood between them and death.

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

That's why I won't give up! I'll continue to move forward because I believe!

No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best.

My goal might be impossible for me. Even so... I think it would be great if it came true. So I keep believing.

Every night greets the dawn. There is no night that goes on forever.

Even if you don't have hope right now, I promise it will come to you again. Again and again, hope will always bloom.

I ain't gonna give up on myself. I'm done with that.

I don't want to lose to the darkness. I want to have faith and move forward.

It would have been nice if we could have lived our lives without taking any wrong turns. But such a thing isn't possible. We fall, we stumble...we lose our way, we make mistakes. And yet, little by little...one step at a time...we keep on walking forward with our own two feet. Even if we get beaten and bruised along the way, we'll eventually reach something. We'll eventually reach someone. Until then, we'll keep wishing. So...let's start walking.

I can't give up. Something...there must be something I can do. I want to believe that. I have to believe that.

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is.