Quotes About Optimism

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

I hope, or I could not live.

the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless

Patience is the art of hoping.

Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars.

I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.

'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.