Quotes About Optimism

Embracing and reframing failure or setbacks means developing goals to help you exceed expectations next time.

No amount of darkness can ever put out the smallest flicker of light.

The downfall of a man, is not the end of his life.

There's is always a way to make life better.

When you walk through a stormKeep your head up highAnd don't be afraid of the dark.At the end of the stormIs a golden skyAnd the sweet, silver song of a lark.

The corn is as high as an elephant's eye,An' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky.

Happy talk,Keep talkin' happy talk,Talk about t'ings you like to do.You gotta have a dream;If you don't have a dreamHow you gonna have a dream come true?

Oh, what a beautiful mornin'Oh, what a beautiful day.I got a beautiful feelin'Everything's going my way.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.

The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them.

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.

Optimism is cowardice. We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end.

Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up in the rose-coloured optimism of Progress (which no one actually believes in), he masks it with literature, he crawls behind the shelter of ideals so as not to see anything. But

Sad? Oh, I don't see that; nothing in life is worth calling sad. According to Heraclitus, everything is sad; according to Democritus, nothing is sad. The true secret is to take things as they come, and not trouble yourself sufficiently about anything to give it power to trouble you.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

But if the world only toss you a cake, only keep you well fed and well fattened, what a good and a fair world it is, how full of all sweetness and light, how true in its vision, how pure in its excellence;

Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.

It could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

Elvileg történhet jó is ezután velünk.

So always look for the silver liningAnd try to find the sunny side of life.