Quotes About Optimism

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

Success is the process of not accepting failure.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.

Some days success just means not giving up.

If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!"

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

Failure is just success rounded down.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

Everything seems impossible until you see success.

My dearest,' said Valentine, 'has the count not just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words – "wait" and "hope"?

All human wisdom is contained in these two words -- 'Wait and hope.

Incertitude is still hope.

La vita è un rosario di piccole miserie, che il filosofo sgrana ridendo. Siate filosofi come me signori: mettevi a tavola e beviamo: l'avvenire non sembra mai così roseo, come quando lo si guarda attraverso un bicchiere di chambertin

We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. But

there is no nation but the French that can smile even in the face of grim Death himself.

until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, - `Wait and hope.' Your friend

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God designs to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - Wait and hope. - Edmond Dantès