Quotes About Optimism

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours.

Start. Don't look back. If at the end it doesn't meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.

Neither the mob nor Vegas could exist if most people weren't optimists

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future world depends.

That's because people find what they're looking for. If we look for beauty, we'll find beauty. If we look for conspiracies, we'll find conspiracies. It's all a matter of setting our mental channel.

When there is no real hope we must mint our own. If the coin be counterfeit it still may be passed.

The optimism of a revolutionary always gives rise to a sense of wonder.

A few drops of hope fell upon my heart.

When there is no real hope we must mint our own

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

There's only one way to defeat the sorrow and sadness of life - with laughter and rejoicing. Bring out the good dishes, put on your good clothes, no sense hoarding them.

You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair, to embrace change.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

There is always hope-hope enough to balance our despair. Or we would be lost.

I always behave--I insist upon behaving, whatever I am told and whatever my own discouragements may be, as if love someday might be fulfilled, as if the Sovereign Good were possible

and perhaps tomorrow may see the end of these difficulties. Difficulties are just things to overcome after all."44

If you view the world as a predominately hostile place, it will be," wrote Ed Buryn.

his optimistic view of America's potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature.

Rockefeller succeeded because he believed in the long-term prospects of the business and never treated it as a mirage that would soon fade.

You're not a realist, she says. You're a dreamer who doesn't believe in the dream.