Quotes About Optimism

There was the same old dread, and there was the same old hope

since I got into politics, I still think I have the best job in the world (some days) and why, despite the rise of Trump, I'm still (kind of) optimistic about our future (most of the time [albeit certainly less than I was a few months ago]). —Al Franken Washington

When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.

Beauty is a promise of happiness.

Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

While mourning the number of missed opportunities, we have no reason to abandon a belief in the ever-present possibility of moulding circumstances for the better.

How pleasant to hold in mind, through the crevasses of our moods, at three in the afternoon when lassitude and despair threaten, that there is always a plane taking off for somewhere.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards. Through

Cynicism is too easy, and it gets you nowhere.

Life is cheerful, that's the devil's talk.

National decline can be precipitated not only or principally by sentimental optimism, but also by a version of media-induced clinical depression.

Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle.

She leaned back in the bed and smiled, feeling excited at the prospect; feeling hope.

SMILE - IT NO BROKE YOUR FACE! -on a stone in Kalaupapa

Don't wait for the world to change. Change your mind about the world.

Acting as if your life is good is closer to the truth than acting as if it is not.

Agony is not something that happens to you. To agonize is a choice.

It takes a lot less work to feel good than it does to feel bad.

Fight for your valued goal instead of fighting against the situation you do not prefer.

This way and stop looking so positive: optimism doesn't fit a prisoner's profile. Poe obediently lowered his head and adopted as morose an expression as possible.