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Quotes About Optimism

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
~ Patrick Henry
It is better to die in hope than live in despair.
~ Yuna
I accept the fact that I'm going to miss it sometimes. I just hope I miss it where I can find it.
~ Fuzzy Zoeller
It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.
~ Jane Goodall
Black does not appear in the rainbow of hope.
~ Norman Hartnell
Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.
~ Ralph Marston
I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
~ Lauryn Hill
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
~ Lu Xun
The atheist has no hope.
~ James Freeman Clarke
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
~ Austin O'Malley
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...be more guided by hope than fear.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
~ John Ortberg
Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Anything that kills hope is a sin
~ Gayle Forman
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
~ Sophocles
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
~ Robert Breault
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
~ Bill Vaughan
Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.
~ Leif Enger
Hope, like the gleaming taper
~ Oliver Goldsmith
If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.
~ Brian Tracy