Quotes About Optimism

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

Black care," Roosevelt wrote, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.

I still feel like a young girl, as though everything is about to happen.

I believe in Hell because it's doctrinal, she said with a smile, but I don't think anyone's in it.

I tend not to look at the prison wall of life, but to look up at the sky, as it is more beautiful and more spacious. Try

The rapid firing of the 105s pounding the hill up ahead encouraged him. Maybe this won't be so bad, he reasoned. No one could survive that pounding.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition

At first it gave me pain, And I felt my ears turn perfectly pink When your exclamation made me think We might never get down again! But now I believe it is wiser far To remain for ever just where we are.

She had brushed her teeth before vomiting as well, never able to utterly crush the optimistic streak in her nature.

Worriers are visionaries minus the optimism.

Put a dozen relatively like-minded people into the same crisis and you will see a dozen different responses. Some are heroes; others are cowards. Some are leaders; others are followers. Some are optimistic; others despair. Some shake their fist at God; others quietly submit. You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure. Throughout

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

Well, this is a bull market, you know

you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.

Sometimes you just have to hold on, to keep doing what you're doing, to have faith that things are going to get better. It's how we survive. There've been a million bottlenecks in history where things would have turned out much worse if we'd all just given up and accepted the inevitable. Some of those bottlenecks would have ended us if a few irrational, doggedly optimistic souls hadn't clung to a thread of hope

Generally it's best to accept that things are exactly as bad as they look. At least that way you know it's time to start digging your way out.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.