Quotes About Optimism

Like her, he cared more for the future than the past, more for hope than anger.

When the sun shineth, make hay.

fter nearly four months of being on the road, nothing seemed to faze them. This is a really annoying quality; you want to be miserable, but those around you refuse to yield their sunny dispositions.

Edward M. Hallowell, MD, author of Shine

The paradox is that our wonderful ability to adapt and grow doesn't happen without stress—we can't have the good without a bit of the bad.

Todo el mundo mentía. Unas mentiras maravillosas,desenfrenadas,optimas,desmedidas,entusiastas.

Tal vez el Empleador es uno de esos hombres que creen que un revés temprano, espectacular, los espolea a conseguir un triunfo mundial más adelante».

A Ricky, que había adquirido una saludable falta de respeto por la religión en su ejercicio profesional, le gustó bastante la yuxtaposición del hospital para veteranos del ejército y las por lo menos seis iglesias distintas: era como si la dura realidad de los abandonados, representada por el hospital, sirviera para equilibrar en cierta medida el optimismo que circulaba sin control en las iglesias.

Incluso cuando se está condenado al fracaso, vale la pena poner en práctica todo lo que uno sabe, para que cuando llegue la derrota inevitable, uno tenga al menos la satisfacción de saber que hizo cuando estaba en su mano para evitarlo.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Train your conscious mind to think thoughts of success, happiness, health, prosperity, and to weed out fear and worry. Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and make sure the thoughts you habitually think are based upon what you want to see happen in your life.

It was thus that the keynote of existence was struck for me, one of mirth even in the dark of storm, and that I have since become the oldest man that ever lived, and shall doubtless continue to the end of time to hold the record for longevity, I attribute to nothing else than that, thanks to my father's droll humor, I was born smiling.

O what of the outer drear, As long as there's inner light; As long as the sun of cheer Shines ardently bright?

I defy any man to be a pessimist on the subject of American character after a season or two on the lecture platform; provided of course that he is a reasonably sympathetic man, and is so constituted in matters social that he is what the politicians call a "good mixer."

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

American can do better, and help is on the way.

Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.

I love sailboats. No other man-made object blends design, craftsmanship, passion, and pure optimism the way a sailboat does. With a good sailboat, anything is possible.