Quotes About Optimism

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot...damn thing is, I've never felt better.

If you think you can - you can!

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an experience to be savoured. Time did not last forever. I shall not waste a single moment, she promised herself. She had never felt so strong, so optimistic. As though she was young once more, starting out, and something marvellous was just about to happen.

Life, for both of us, can never be the same as it was, but it can be different; and you have proved to me that it can be good.

The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.

She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.

To cheer herself up, Elfrida looked ahead, in positive fashion, which she had always found a reliable method of dealing with a sense of loss.

looks nice and easy on the map. Remember one thing, though, fellows: here at Mayamlia we take in full supplies. The food and fuel will be easy as far as Helena or Trinidad. Between those points and the final flight to Rio, though, the gasoline supply is what we must look out for." "We're going to make it–I feel it in my bones!" crowed the optimistic

But we can't lead our lives in fear of what might be. So live each day to its utmost, only then will you be free. (Poem by Chast's mother)

Quando o Pereba chegou, eu enchi os copos e disse, que o próximo ano seja melhor. Feliz Ano Novo.

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

You are making a mountain out of a molehill,' said Angela. Olivia was suddenly inspired to answer, 'A molehill can be a mountain to a sparrow.

In those first days they were happy.

If this is indeed a trap, I will gladly fall into it!- Miroku

Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case.

All roads, whether long or short, are hard, said Frog. Come, you have begun your journey, and all else necessarily follows from that act. Be of good cheer. The sun is bright. The sky is blue. The world lies before you.

At the time I was feeling hopeful, which now seems kind of sad and brave.

Hope can't hurt

if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities.

Hope is a passion for the possible.