Quotes About Optimism

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

Bandini looked at a patch of blue in the east. 'Pretty soon we'll have spring', he said. 'We sure will!

A man could bear up under any temporary crisis if he had faith in the future.

All at once the self pity drained from me. There was life still, there was a typewriter and paper and eyes to see them, and thoughts to keep them alive.

I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Think of a positive outcome, and you will achieve it. Allow doubt to enter your mind, and the doubt will become self-fulfilling.

There's no sense in bemoaning what we can't achieve today. Let's get on with what we can achieve.

Maybe the wind will get up again," he added hopefully. "Maybe," Jesper replied. He sounded a lot less hopeful about it. "I've found in the past that when you're in a jam and you really need something to happen, it usually doesn't.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...

His dad had once told him that hope was the most valuable possession a man could own. When he'd first said it, Nathan hadn't known what he'd meant. Now it was clear. Hope was where tomorrow resided.

Never give up hope, because miracles do happen.

NO ONE starts a trip thinking that they might crash. Even though there is always a possibility, no one in their right mind ever begins a journey thinking that it's going to end in failure. There are only two types of people in the world who are aware and plan on crashing before they ever start : test pilots and teenage boys.

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

I had never thought of Marley as any kind of model, but sitting there sipping my beer, I was aware that maybe he held the secret for a good life. Never slow down, never look back, live each day w/ adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

Nothing felt certain, so I made a choice. Hope, I decided. I would wake to a sense of hope. I

She had faith that each moment would be finer than the last. She believed that people were good