Quotes About Optimism

I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.

Churchill's great trick—one he had demonstrated before, and would demonstrate again—was his ability to deliver dire news and yet leave his audience feeling encouraged and uplifted.

Contrary to the predictions of many students of international problems, I feel fairly certain that we shall not have war in the near future.

It's a grand life if we don't weaken!'

B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was better than even: I had had a wonderful time.

We believe in the Führer's powers of divination. We know that anything which now seems to be going against us will turn out to be most fortunate for us in the end." Goebbels knew, of course

But one thing was quite clear…" he wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time." Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations.

I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time." Bloom

One young navy man, Ludovic Kennedy, later to achieve fame as a journalist and broadcaster, recalled how "when we heard it, we knew in an instant, that everything would be all right.

also all that has gone right, I feel sure

He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.

Sometimes you're on top and things are easy. Sometimes you're on the bottom. There's no need to let it worry you.

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

its pretty to think so

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

The hell with my arm. You lose an arm you lose an arm. There's worse things than lose an arm. You've got two arms and you've got two of something else. And a man's still a man with one arm or with one of those. The hell with it,' he says. . . .after a minute he says, 'I got those other two still.