Quotes About Optimism

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

The most hopeless idleness is that most smoothed with excellent plans.

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest that we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.

Faith is inseparable from love; out of these two twins hope is born.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Ich hatte nicht den Verstand verloren! Mein Hirn wurde nicht in zwei Hälften gerissen. Ich würde mein weiteres Leben nicht in einer Zelle mit sehr weichen Wänden verbringen müssen. Das war soweit erfreulich.

Man sagt, Verrückte verspüren manchmal in aussichtslosen Situationen eine unsinnige Gelassenheit.

si el optimismo es rígido y desproporcionado deja de ser funcional.

Conozco infinidad de "heráclitos" que se desplazan por la vida llevando la carga de amargura y pesimismo a cuestas, obviamente sin la genialidad de aquél; y bastantes "demócritos" que, aunque no son sabios, tratan de ponerle buena cara al mal tiempo.

Tengo confianza en mí, en lo que soy, en mi potencial".

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm." But how does one learn to perform that "trick" of "failing enthusiastically"?

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Bugger this. I want a better world.