Quotes About Optimism

Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

All cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.

One has to hope, you know?' 'Yes,' said Parker. 'I know.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

We are a rugged species, up for anything the universe can throw at us; and as the great gloominaries knew, we will be immeasurably better prepared for nasty surprises if we approach the universe realistically — pessimistically — than if we continue to peer out at our surroundings through a distorting, rose-colored prism of wish-fulfillment fantasy.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

They say everything in the world is good for something.

Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

3. Hope in God.This is the believer's most appropriate hope.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!

Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.

No matter what our situation is, there's always a way to celebrate life and there's always a way to start again.

And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.