Quotes About Optimism

Shopping is hope.

Your worst pessimist is, after all, an optimist with regard to himself.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I have been bent and broken but I hope into better shape.

There wasn't any point in dwelling in the pain of the past, not when the future could hold suck pleasure.

Dont give up great things take time

I haven't given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even

How masterful and mad is hope.

I like sunrises, Mondays, and new seasons. God seems to be saying,"with me you can always start afresh.

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun just started";

I was forced to go to a positive-thinking seminar. I couldn't stand it. So I went outside to the parking lot and let half the air out of everybody's tires. As they came out I said, "So, are your tires half-full, or half-empty?"

The whole history of the debate about life beyond Earth is an argument between optimists and pessimists. It's a debate that began with the opposition between Aristotle and Epicurus, extended through the 1800s to Flammarion versus Whewell, and took its modern turn with the Drake equation, through which the battle between pessimism and optimism became quantitative.

By looking on the bright side, we'll activate enthusiasm and turn on the go system.

The worst thing is never the last thing.

Jun Do saw a look he knew well from childhood, the look of a boy who thought the next day would be better. Those boys never lasted. Still, Jun Do liked them the most.

We can only be really realistic after we have tried our optimism out.

Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

My mother had narrowed her vision and chosen happiness, and I had willingly signed on, both of us ignoring the dangers of the new terrain.

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.