Quotes About Optimism

Okay, Buzzkill, this is a win. You celebrate wins. You don't shit on them.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure, there are thousands to point out to you one by one, the dangers that wait to assail you, But just buckle in, with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing, that cannot be done and you'll do it!!

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

One good thing, however, was there - Hope. It was the only good thing the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

And yet to be without hope is almost to be without sanity.

It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.

He who expects little is rarely disappointed.

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You hold on to the good of a thing, the part that enriches you, and do not dwell on the sadness. It is unproductive.

Take up the song; forget the epitaph.

Tenía una confianza sin límites en su capacidad de sobreponerse a cualquier contrariedad y de sacar provecho de cualquier obstáculo.

El me miró risueño, y sembró una semilla más en el fértil potrero de mis sueños de pibe.

A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Where life is there is death, reasons the vulture, and where there's death there's hope.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

The future's bright, the future's Orange.

I plan on living forever. So far, so good.

Merrill Lynch is bullish on America.