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Quotes About Optimism

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."
~ Oscar Wilde
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
~ Arsene Houssaye
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most wretched have yet hope.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -
~ Paulo Coelho
Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.
~ David Nicholls
Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
~ Aimee Bender
And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.
~ James Webb Young
Never, ever lose hope. We must not lose hope.
~ Mehgan Heaney-Grier
Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.
~ Rick Riordan
Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option
~ Obert Skye
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
~ Pindar
Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
The most powerful weapon is hope.
~ Juliet Marillier
That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.
~ John F. Kerry
It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The Indian team does not need any best wishes - they are going to win anyway. I have been close to Sourav Ganguly, and I hope he does well in the World Cup.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.
~ Spike Lee
Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.
~ Sophia Lee
The rallying call to people is to give them hope. When you have hope, that's huge.
~ John C. Maxwell
Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?
~ Elizabeth Wein
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner