Quotes About Optimism

Discouragement often comes from focusing on the wrong things. It also derives from a lack of patience, which is a virtue we are losing in our society.

I am a slow walker," Lincoln said. "But I never walk backwards.

Failure is not final, and I always have said it is fertilizer for future success.

Don't leave five minutes before the miracle?

Y sin ver el futuro con optimismo, ¿cómo podemos esperar construir uno mejor?

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

I'm so positive.

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.

If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bullet-proof.

To make it not be the last day, I'd search for every single possibility. (Translated)

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

Whenever anything went wrong in my life, my mother would say, "All things happen for the best." And I'd ask, "Who's best?" And she'd say, "Gotta go."

Only love can turn the darkest storm into the brightest day.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

The world's most deadly fluff is: "I would definitely buy that." It just sounds so concrete. As a founder, you desperately want to believe it's money in the bank. But folks are wildly optimistic about what they would do in the future. They're always more positive, excited, and willing to pay in the imagined future than they are once it arrives.

Anything involving the future is an over-optimistic lie.

We were just a couple of fallen angels, rolling the dice of our lives. We'd heard all the horror stories of early marriages and fast divorces and broken hearts. But we knew none of them would happen to us, because as Dexy's Midnight Runners sang to Eileen, we were far too young and clever.

We were young and in love and the world was changing

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.