Quotes About Optimism

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Carey was one of those appalling people who wake refreshed and ready for anything every morning about an hour before everyone else, and then bounce around whistling happily, avoiding death only because they move faster than the people who want to kill them.

Hay que contraponer, al pesimismo de la inteligencia, el optimismo de la voluntad (Gramsci).

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

mejor encender un cirio que maldecir la obscuridad. —ROBERTO FERNÁNDEZ RETAMAR

Quizá el mejor resumen de lo que la chinaca significó en aquellos años terribles para la república de 1864 y 1865 esté en la frase de Eduardo Ruiz que caracteriza a una fuerza inmune a la derrota: "México perdiendo gana, si no es hoy será mañana".

It's pretty easy to be grateful when the sails of life are blowing your way.

can't understand why an optimistic concept sounds so bizarre to most people.

What you appreciate appreciates.

And be over-the-moon grateful that everything is working out for your good.

3. We stalk negativity. What do we study? Disease, problems, disasters of the past. What do we prepare for? Emergencies. We love to sink our teeth into problems and ask, "What's wrong?" It's an old-school model that sorely needs transformation. Once we begin to look for what's right, our lives begin spinning in unimaginably exciting new directions.

human spark plug, optimistic, intelligent, and energetic.

My favorite word? "Yes."

The trouble with you is,' she said, half-smiling, 'that you're such an optimist. You really believe that if things are hopelessly bad, then they must improve. What nonsense it is! Things can be bad, and stay bad. And they can be endured... Can't you see that we've all got to make the best of things as they are?

Today, the belief in progress, necessary for life in a Godless universe, can no longer be sustained, except, perhaps, in the Silicon Valley mansions of baby-faced millennials.

Writing during the heyday of Modernization Theory, the French critic Raymond Aron, though resolutely anti-communist, termed American-style individualism the product of a short history of unrepeatable national success, which 'spreads unlimited optimism, denigrates the past, and encourages the adoption of institutions which are in themselves destructive of the collective unity'.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

One calling for optimism, pragmatism, and a belief that all problems might be solved, with enough courage, determination, good

noticed that it was a clear and beautiful spring day, a better day than yesterday. The spores of kindness, as well as faith, survived in this acid soil. Randy

Sometimes, you gotta believe something crazy. Because all the other things you could believe hurt too much.

Just watch Snow White. Just visit Disneyland or Walt Disney World in Florida—he was laying the plans for the Florida park while he was on his death bed. People kept telling him his dreams were impossible. Walt knew better. He had wished upon a star.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.