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Quotes About Optimism

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.
~ Lauren Oliver
Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.
~ Lauren Oliver
Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.
~ Damon Lindelof
People don't cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.
~ Martha Beck
Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.
~ Stephen King, The Green Mile
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde
~ Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
~ Victor Hugo
Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
~ Martin Luther
The miserable have no medicine but hope.
~ William Shakespeare
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
~ Samuel Johnson
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope
~ George Orwell
Hope is a satisfaction unto itself and need not be fulfilled to be appreciated.
~ Dr. Fred O. Henker
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
~ Vaclav Havel
...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.
~ Nick Lake, There Will Be Lies
To hope is to enjoy.
~ Jacques Delille
When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.
~ Munia Khan
Endure every hardship with hope.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.
~ Honore de Balzac
I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.
~ Rick Yancey, The Last Star
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope for the soft marrow abi-deth in the hard bone.
~ Hafez