Quotes About Optimism

It's a classic bias in human thinking: most of us never want to imagine the worst. We are optimists by nature. Personally, I find the zeitgeist at Davos every year to be a contrarian indicator of the future. If everyone in the Davos set believes something will happen—good or bad, as it may be—they are highly likely to be wrong.

Alles ist gut, nur nicht überall; nur nicht immer, nur nicht für alle.

Putting up food is, at its heart, an optimistic thing. It's a bold way to say: I will be sticking around.

El cultivo de lo superfluo y de lo que no supone beneficio puede de todos modos ayudarnos a resistir, a mantener viva la esperanza, a entrever el rayo de la luz que nos permitirá recorrer un camino decoroso.

No hope for the journey if no one ever sees the dawn

impossible is not a word

There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.

Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option

Listen,' Clover said. 'Don't worry about not being able to come back, I've lived both places, and trust me, you won't be getting the short end of the stick if you end up in Foo. I mean, candy alone...

Believe, it is our best defense.

You don't run away from problems, you run towards solutions.

It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

You're healthy," it said. "Your development is exactly right. I can't find any flaw in you." And

I still don't believe you," she said. "Things don't have to be as bad as you say they are.

My god," Bankole said. "This country has slipped back two hundred years." "Things were better when I was little," Emery said. "My mother always said they would get better again. Good times would come back. She said they always did. My father would shake his head and not say anything.

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

It feels like we're holding on to something because we want to believe it,

Now then, the funeral party. In case you all aint noticed, the first three letters of the word funeral spells fun.

I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but somehow cheerfulness was always breaking in.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.