Quotes About Optimism

Never expect appreciation for your hard work. Just continue, it will take you to the top.

Focus only on your successes and you will never know failure...

If you believe you will succeed, there is always a chance you might. But if you believe that you will fail, then you will always fail. Never allow yourself to lose before you begin.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.

Hope always blooms.

With hope, a mind is always free.

When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.

I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic's rationale of relying on proof through fact.

By my father's own handwritten definition: Faith is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us even though we still cannot see it ahead of us.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.

Qué era peor, nos preguntábamos entre nosotras, sentarnos y esperar la muerte con el rostro apropiadamente sombrío, o buscar una manera de ser felices a pesar de todo?

Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worst possible thing.

Asombra que yo no haya abandonado aún todas mis esperanzas, puesto que parecen absurdas e irrealizables. Sin embargo, me aferro a ellas a pesar de todo, porque sigo creyendo en la bondad innata del hombre.

Mientras puedas mirar al cielo sin temor, sabrás que eres puro por dentro y que, pase lo que pase, volverás a ser feliz.

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.

El dolor es para superarlo, no para revolcarse en él.

I love when you say: 'All that happens is good.' I say, 'All that happens is wonderful.' For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living—God, Henry, in you alone I have found the same swelling enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness. Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring, next to mine, it makes me dizzy.

Listen, if there are only two men in the world and one woman life is worth creating . . . there is life. The three of us can fight the tide of Spengler's asphyxiating gas—pessimism.

I kill one realistic dragon a day, and unfortunately the meat is too tough to eat or we could save money on steak.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.