Quotes About Optimism

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

The one necessary thing .— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.

The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.

Saying yes to life, even in its strangest and hardest problems.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

Always look on the bright side of the abyss

What makes heroic? – To go to meet simultaneously one's greatest sorrow and one's greatest hope.

Only the boldest Utopians would dream of the economy of kindness.

Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy." In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy.

Intense hope is a much stronger stimulant to life than any single instance of happiness which actually occurs.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it — all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary — but love it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is like a rose. A few thorns don't make it any less beautiful.

And as far as wishing goes, I save my wishes for things that can still come true. There's no point in wasting them on the past.

Where one did not suffer with day to day problems because they were solved before hand in ones imagination.

We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

The initial two or three wins that you get really give you a surge in confidence. That helps for the following games.

You are going to run into some bad stretches - that's just part of the season - but while we're playing well and feeling good, we have to take advantage and get as many wins as we can.

I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.

Something that helps me build more optimism in the dead of winter is not staying up too late and waking up early.

I do think children come in wired a certain way. Why else would I be filled with hope and optimism? You just could not keep me down for very long. You can call it grace or a gift from God, but I do think I came in with it.

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.