Quotes About Optimism

What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?

Optimism research teaches us that we should expect the best and have a contingency plan for the worst.

Modest expectations will also mean that you can avoid false-hope syndrome, whereby we stick with crazy expectations way past the point at which we should have reined them in.

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

You're such an optimist Kane -- that's your problem. You only end up disappointed.

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don't have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven't got a heart.

if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn't make sense to be hopeful.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

No news is ever as good or as bad as it first seems

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems."–

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

You're crackers." "Marvelous isn't it? I find it's the only way to be.

I do think there's always a way to put things right. If I didn't believe that I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn't eat breakfast; I wouldn't leave the TARDIS ever. I would never have left home. There is always something we can do.

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

Remaining hopeful is essential. And it's true that everyone has good and bad qualities. But hope must be tempered with a realistic view of the situation and an assessment of the likelihood of change.

that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles.

Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love.