Quotes About Optimism

Another aspect of that legacy was the buoyant optimism in the schools. All the masters shared the view that man, even in his fallen state, was 'capable of the fullest intellectual and spiritual enlargement', that the universe was ordered and therefore accessible to rational inquiry, and that man's mastery of his environment through his intellect, cumulative knowledge and experience was possible.22 Outside

Have a drink," he said. "Helps the future go down easier.

TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE. —ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM. —ROBERT JARVIK

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

The lads are on top of the ground at the moment and they look as though they're looking forward to tomorrow.

Hope opens doors that despair has slammed shut. Hope looks for the good instead of harping on the worst. Hope turns problems into opportunities and fear into faith. Is such hope a pie-in-the-sky illusion? Does it make Christians complacent, content to leave the world as it is? Maybe so for some people, but knowing our future is secure should free us to make a difference in the lives of those around us.

I would say I'm cautiously pessimistic about our chances.

As a man of sense never at?tempts impossibilities, on one hand, or the other, he is never discouraged by difficulties: on the contrary, he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.

We'll be all right!" she said. "We'll be all right now! Let's go up and find out whom we've hitched a lift with!

Kudlow was optimistic. "There is no recession," he wrote. "In fact, we are about to enter the seventh consecutive year of the Bush boom.

Call me an "optimistic skeptic.

when you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.

A beguiling optimism is often the first step toward folly.

I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

A young person still thinks it is possible–there is time enough–to become all things: athlete and aesthete, soldier and pacifist, anchorite and debauchee.

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

Some people might say, "Who would want to be 90?" And I say, Anyone who is 89.

Look at Bob Hope. Look at Milton Berle, George Burns. Look how long they lived. Seeing the funny side of things keeps you alive.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

A smile is a curve that sets things right.

If you are not happy, act the happy man. Happiness will come later. If you are in despair, act as though you believe. Faith will come afterwards.