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Quotes About Optimism

I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.
~ Craig Sager
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
~ Roderick Haig-Brown
I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.
~ Fuzzy Zoeller
Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat.
~ Ken Simonton
And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
~ William H. McRaven
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
~ Dorothy Parker
They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.
~ Gaylord Perry
The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.
~ Pat Williams
But to those who kept saying "It can't be done," Never are the victories Or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters Watched from far behind.
~ Bruce Lee
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
~ Ovid
There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426
~ Patrick Ness
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
~ Pablo Neruda
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
~ Maya Angelou
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~ Hellen Keller
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
~ Judy Garland
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Hope does not disappoint.
~ Paul the Apostle
My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.
~ Maria Montessori
There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.
~ Ziggy Marley
Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
~ Joan D. Chittister
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.
~ Maya Angelou