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Quotes About Optimism

Nothing is lost forever. Trying keeps the hope alive.
~ Takeshi Kaneshiro
Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?
~ Pope Francis
There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.
~ Rumi
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
~ Edward Gibbon
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.
~ Samuel Johnson
If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.
~ Libba Bray
Torture is not torture when there's any hope of relief.
~ Tahereh Mafi
Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.
~ Lisa Unger
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
~ Samuel Johnson
If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.
~ Ron Dellums
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
~ Boris Pasternak
Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)
~ Joseph Delaney
Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.
~ Nelson Mandela
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
~ Thomas Merton
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
~ Frontinus
The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling.
~ Alfred Bunn
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
~ Isaac Bickerstaffe
Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.
~ Wendell Berry
Indian economy is suffering from policy paralysis and lack of optimism. I am confident that with right kind of decisions, we can once again generate hope and confidence and turnaround our economy.
~ Narendra Modi
Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!
~ William Wordsworth
Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope
~ Jeffrey Burton Russell
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.
~ Michael Chabon