Quotes About Optimism

An infant's smile was the greatest promise that the world would go on, no matter how much the grown-ups mucked around with it.

For every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile.

Finché c'è vita c'è speranza." As long as there was life, there was hope.

I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.

I want to tell you about the most hopeful thing in the world. It is a seed.

When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.

When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won. ~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance

Sisyfos optimistina: Vierivä kivi ei sammaloidu.

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

The worst is yet to come: I'm still alive.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

When you feel that you aren't like everyone else or feel tainted by what has happened to you, it's hard to be optimistic about the future. In fact, for many survivors, it's nearly impossible to imagine the future at all. Many of us are caught in a state where we're still just trying to survive (our sole focus during trauma) and can't think much beyond that. Time for us is frozen and the future feels hazy at best.

a quote from Henry Ford: "THINKING ALWAYS AHEAD, THINKING ALWAYS OF TRYING TO DO MORE, BRINGS A STATE OF MIND IN WHICH NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.

With so much failure in the air, you can't help but breathe it in. Don't inhale. Don't get fooled by the stats. Other people's failures are just that: other people's failures

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

There's just something irresistible about hope.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

Even though how long the light may last, the sun will always rise up above you

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.