Quotes About Optimism

I will say that again in a different way: the persistent unethical and ignorant emphasis on secrecy and on making decisions for partisan advantage or to pay off campaign contributors and select insiders is not sustainable. We the People have an opportunity to embrace this manifesto of Open-Source Everything and bury 'rule of secrecy.' This is why I am optimistic about the future.

I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

Shane rode in a thoughtful silence. He had never much believed in God. He believed in Hell, for he had seen it with his own eyes, but to even think that there was a great and powerful benevolent force watching over mankind, like a distant but loving father, had always struck him as childishly optimistic.

If today is your worst day, then tomorrow is going to be a little better, right? And the day after that will also be a little better. Each day will get a little better, Alex, but only if you let me help you. So right now, all you have to do is get through today. That's not too hard, right? Just get through today. You can get through today, right?

things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all. I

When ninety-five percent of your life is good, don't sweat the other five percent.

Everything is going to be okay.

And maybe 'if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas

How's the head?... They say I'll need a couple of stitches. Who knows, could be an improvement.

I realized that just because things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all.

One thinks the worst even while clinging to hopes for the best.

Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

The pursuit of fewer errors is sensible; the insistence on none at all, counterproductive.

Mournier defined his own position as one of 'tragic optimism--' a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite the fact that the Absolute cannot be contained in history.

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...

A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that.

Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold.Dread fifty above more than fifty below.

I always entertain great hopes.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

It was a glorious thing, to be given hope, when all had seemed lost.

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen,

As long as you don't have to see it, all good, eh?

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm