Quotes About Optimism

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

You can lose everything in life,but not dreams.

You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice Because the thorns have a rose.

I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.

Don't give up. Come on. Just keep on trying. Don't frown. Smile! You can do it. If you just try a little harder. I've got a feeling this whole thing might just work out okay. You'll see. Don't give up. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Now I want to see all of you get up on your feet and look like you're enjoying yourselves. Come on, let's see some of that famous 'Pennsylvania optimism' I've heard so much about...

Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education. I am older than you, have felt badly myself, and know, what I tell you is true. Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all you life.

December] 20th. [1862] Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

the optimism, the boundless confidence of a society that had not yet seen or imagined the world wars, the belief that humankind had the capacity to briskly eradicate all barriers that lay in the path of progress. "Our

Told you, said Mick. Things comin' together. We set off lookin' for the Utz kids an' find a tree full o' everybody. That's magic, too. It's like a story. Same thing. The universe don't like plot. Story is magic's way o' telling the universe to sod off. That's good then, right? said Scott. After this episode with Emily, he was ready for some optimism. Magic wants us all to live happily ever after. Not necessarily, Mick answered. Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you? I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son.

She remembers Voltaire's warning about the perfect being the enemy of the good.

Camus said, "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

Folks lighten up their lives when they're about to make a move.

You must know that they don't give you your papers unless you're a dreamer.

Cry Sorrow, sorrow--yet let good prevail.

THE FOX AND THE GRAPES A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis, and did his best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air. But it was all in vain, for they were just out of reach: so he gave up trying, and walked away with an air of dignity and unconcern, remarking, I thought those Grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.