Quotes About Optimism

Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.

I think there is a huge ceiling in Derek Carr. I think he has proven that.

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

MEGARA: You love the light so much? AMPHITRYION: I do, I love its hopes.

You love the light so much? I do, I love its hopes.

The odd thing about Mama was that she liked to think of herself as a doomy sort of person, but there was a natural optimism in her that refused to be defeated, however hard she squashed it down, and I know that she never lost faith completely.

Most castles in the air are never built. But Walt Disney's was.

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.

The Second World War wasn't bad provided you were with nice people.

It eluded us then, but that's no matter —tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning——

I'm a cynical idealist.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything.

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...

We're going through the black air with our arms wide and our feet straight out behind like a dolphin's tail, and we're going to think we'll never hit the silver down there till suddenly it'll be all warm round us and full of little kissing, caressing waves.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.