Quotes About Optimism

Gult? viss š?iet skaisti.

If you find yourself living in a world where there is only cynicism, negativity, and distrust, you need to realize that it's a world of your own making. There is a more beautiful world out there to be known, but you have to be able to see it. You have to want it. You must be willing to risk, to step outside of what you know, to live in a more extraordinary unknown.

Worry projects a negative view of the world around us. Worry projects a negative future. Worry is an act of faith. It is a deep-seated belief in worst-case scenarios. Worry is not rooted in reality but does affect our reality.

AÈ™ vrea s? fiu mai bine un n?tâng, decât un înÈ›elept vestind nenorociri. S? se petreac? toate minunat chiar împotriva minÈ›ii mele!

Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.

Pessimistische Depressionen sind als schöpferische Pausen zu betrachten, in denen sich die Kräfte wieder herstellen. Wenn man sich hiervon bewusst is, so werden die Depressionen schneller vorübergehen. Man sol sich niet deprimiert fühlen über eine Depression.

You know, sir, this operation is not, in any hands, a hundred percent predictable? Well, I'm an optimist. I didn't know there were any more such animals, said Dr. Courtland. Never think you've seen the last of anything

He, who had once been the declared optimist, had not once expressed hope. Now it was she who was offering it to him. And it might be false hope

It's our turn! she'd thought exultantly. And we're going to live forever.

To you, ladies and gentlemen, and dear comrades, who are all that is left from humanity, but with such leftovers one can still make a very good soup.

I don't believe in seeing evil in everything. I leave that to the inquisitors.

He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey," he replied, quoting the proverb.

If it still wasn't working when she went to bed, she could start something new in the morning.

You don't find happiness in the absence of problems. You find happiness in spite of problems.

The happiest people don't bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.

When we think everything is going wrong, it usually isn't. We just can't see the whole picture.

Fred might, on just having lost his job, decide that he

Why is it that when good things happen, more good things happen?

find some opportunity within the "disaster".

So you think I'll be all right?' 'You'll be fine. Everything will be fine.' 'As it could be?' 'It's always as it could be. Don't look for perfection. Look for—' 'Survival with a touch of pleasure, a touch of happiness?' 'It's all anyone can expect.

More battles are lost by loss of hope than loss of blood.

The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy,' he later wrote in The World Crisis; 'the outlook of the leader on whose decisions fateful events depend is usually far more sanguine than the brutal facts admit.'45

The path of dawn shines brightest in the dark.

Don't worry. I'm always careful. What could possibly go wrong?" Chapter XVIII – Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong