Quotes About Optimism

I find it comforting to prepare myself for a calamity and to be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be a garden-variety disaster instead.

With anything that would make things better, believe as much as you can—then believe a little more.

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

Just live and be free, not every story ends in tragedy. Just wait and see, make a date with your destiny.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Make it a good day.

Denn das Einzige, was ich an der Hoffnung nicht leiden kann, das Einzige, was ich daran rundwegs ablehne, auch wenn es niemand zugeben will, ist der Umstand, dass plötzlich aufkeimende Hoffnung der direkte Weg zu abrupter Hoffnungslosigkeit ist.

Toujours trop d'espoir devant soi. Et trop de déceptions derrière soi. La vie est ce long ruban qui se déroule sans temps morts et dans un mouvement souple qui alterne espoir et déception.

We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called "Never." All the things we would never do. Let's never get married. Let's never get fat. Let's never sleep with a married man. Let's never stop being students, even after we graduate. Let's never get dull-eyed and ironic. Let's never get stuck in a rut-- or trapped in a life we didn't choose. Let's never grow bitter.

The line most often quoted from Frank's diary are her famous words, "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." These words are "inspiring," by which we mean that they flatter us.

It was possible, probable even, that the world could be rebuilt.

For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations." The pope certainly recognized and understood that this wasn't a randomly chosen expression of optimism.

But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.

My mom always says, "Keep your chin up." That's how I ran into the door.

I am fairly agile. I can bend and not break. Or I can break and take it with a smile.

pessimists live longer! Good news is much easier to believe than bad.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.