Quotes About Optimism

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. Reacher

Hope for the best.' 'But plan for the worst.

We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I'm always happy," he said. "Always was, always will be.

That's your call. My philosophy is hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Zeno spoke Greek, not Latin, and preferred passive resignation to reckless optimism.

Look on the bright side," Dixon said. "Maybe you gave the guy a concussion. Maybe he doesn't remember who he is, let alone who you are.

wouldn't. So he hoped they would bear

Reacher defaulted to his instinctive position, which was to hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

I guess I can dream. Hope dies last, right?

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. That

Hope is] the unswerving belief that better days are ahead, probably in this world and most certainly in the next.

quixotically.

I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

And one day a great thing happened. Dov Landau smiled again.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. —Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, 1993

under the most painful conditions, where it would seem that there remains no room for hope or life—a human being, a being of the highest order, possessing a mind and a will, finds both hope and life.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.

When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.