Quotes About Optimism

the Stalinist credo: "a respect for obedience, hierarchy and institutionalized authority; a belief in reason, optimism and progress; recognition of a possible transformation of nature, society, and human beings; and an acceptance of the necessity of violence.

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

We knew each other, we lived together, we loved together, and we were having a good time together. I hadn't been this happy in a long time. We had plenty of destiny. If we played our cards right, we could reach the stars in this beautiful generation and never come down in a million years of rolling eternity.

Miss Seeley came in.... She was a little older, a little thinner. Her tailored pinstriped suit emphasized the boniness of her figure. But she still wore hopeful white ruffles at her wrists and throat.

You never let go of hope no matter how many times you get knocked down and have to pick yourself up.

It all went wrong when some deluded optimist wrote the words, 'All men are created equal'. This is clearly not the case; some people are losers. He never even lived to see the can of worms he released once he wrote that with his feather. He just signed his autograph and let the chaos begin. (I'm going to name names. It was Thomas Jefferson – another American.) The

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

Answer: Because it's Life, darlings! Every loaf of bread must have its heel.

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

It's never time to panic, folks. It's never, ever gonna be time to give up on our country. It will never be time to give up on the United States. It will never be time to give up on yourselves.

Bad times are good times to prepare for better times.

A merry heart does more good than any medicine.

Feeling down and out? Lift up your head and shout— 'It's a great day!

forward to another great day on the planet Earth. We must cherish each day as though it is our last.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties.' And

Life has its ups and downs and periods of darkness, but now and then it springs a surprise, such as an encounter with an old friend, and makes us want to go on a little longer.

Take any path and hope for the best. At least it will lead you out of the shadows.

We cannot prevent sorrow and pain and tragedy. And yet, when we look around us, we find that the majority of people are actually enjoying life!

The mouse and his child, who had learned so much and had prevailed against such overwhelming odds, never could be persuaded to teach a success course... The whole secret of the thing, they insisted, was simply and at all costs to move steadily ahead, and that, they said, could not be taught.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

You can decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world. Or you can decide that your world is always going to be a cold, dark place.