Quotes About Optimism

As long as there is death, there is hope

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

The meaning of religious truth is hope.

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

I can become a positive virus, a hope virus.

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.