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Quotes About Optimism

I'm not the most positive person.
~ Penny Marshall
she started taking her coffee and Bible with her to the back porch first thing in the mornings. She hoped the quiet time while the children still slept would give her the optimistic attitude she needed to tackle the day ahead. She was a little surprised at how easily she fell back into her old routine and amazed that with every faltering prayer and every moment she spent with the Word, she felt more peace and strength filling her.
~ Unknown
Det gives alltid något bättre än döden
~ Unknown
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Expectancy is the seed that helps the impossible to be made possible.
~ Unknown
If you think you'll get tired, then you will get tired. If you think you'll lose, you will lose.
~ Pete Hamill
Keep your sense of humor. There is a 50-50 chance the world can be saved. You- yes you- might be the grain of sand that tips the scales the right way.
~ Pete Seeger
I wrote to my son. 'Be a pessimist,' I advised Joseph on his first birthday on 21 November. 'It is the safest, most pragmatic way to be. Being an optimist may enrich the lives of others (with good cheer and smiling), but it leads you unaware to danger.
~ Pete Townshend
Create vivid pictures of attainable futures that are safer, friendlier, and more prosperous. Cite
~ Unknown
After decades of war and months of virus-fueled isolation, the people of Uíge did not waste energy.
~ Unknown
And the point? This is the point. Paradise lives in our heads so it can be anywhere and with anyone.
~ Unknown
there is always hope; some people always do better than the numbers.
~ Unknown
Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.
~ Unknown
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.
~ Peter Cameron
I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else's, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me).
~ Peter Cameron
Tener malas experiencias a veces es una ayuda, te aclara lo que deberías hacer. Sé que esto parece demasiado optimista, pero es cierto. Quienes sólo han tenido buenas experiencias no son muy interesantes. Puede que estén contentos y sean felices de alguna manera, pero son superficiales. Ahora te parecerá un contratiempo, algo que te complica la vida, pero... es demasiado sencillo vivir sin complicaciones.
~ Peter Cameron
Holding me, as it were, within the infinite hope of your plausibility.
~ Unknown
He knows it never works, so why does he always go for the same type? "Optimism!
~ Peter F. Hamilton
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Tochee
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Hope doesn't die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
~ Peter Gay