Quotes About Optimism

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Never say die. You have to be mad, it's true, to keep going and hope, but the first reptile who dragged his belly out of the water a million years ago to live on land without lungs and tried to breathe all the same — he too was mad. In the end the reptile became a man. We must always try to do the best we can — perhaps one day well become human, who knows.

A man lives on hope. He keeps thinking things will somehow straighten themselves out.

It's a bad break, staying so young at heart.

That's where his madness lies: in his incredible confidence, his total optimism. [...] And it was true that Morel seemed to be borne forward by a bewildering, almost contagious, confidence. Fields was beginning to be affected by it in spite of himself, and to feel that nothing would ever happen to his Frenchman.

Si tiene duro più facilmente se si fa finta di ridere.»

A volte l'impossibile ha una mano felice.

At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the bat- tle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because was her happy ending.

Like all Americans, he had no talent for bowing to the inevitable. The word 'impossible' is not in his vocabulary.

Il lui servit une dose maison de ce vieil optimisme américain, qu'ils ont en Europe.

Il fut donc à la fois profondément rassuré et attristé lorsqu'il atteignirent la camionnette et qu'ils purent monter et démarrer sans qu'un seul coup de feu fût tiré. C'était, par une fois, une révolution authentique et nouvelle, qui méritait de gagner et de durer, comme celle de Juan Bosch, mais qui allait perdre, parce qu'elle était trop belle. Elle allait durer ce que durent les roses.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Il faut savoir allier le pessimisme de l´intelligence à l´optimisme de la volonté.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

Of all the founders, Hamilton probably had the gravest doubts about the wisdom of the masses and wanted elected leaders who would guide them. This was the great paradox of his career: his optimistic view of America's potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature. His faith in Americans never quite matched his faith in America itself.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

Is that possible? I said. All things, all things are possible. What do you think your bike ride says? People would say "Is that possible?" Of course you know it is, now.

Denial and hope, of course, are cousins. Bring them together, you've got illusion.

Nonetheless, the fact remains; he had hope in a better world he could not yet see that overwhelmed the cries of "you can't" or "you won't" or "why bother." More than anything else, mastering that faith, on cue, is what separated him from his peers, and distinguishes him from so many people in these literal, sophisticated times. It has made all the difference.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.