Quotes About Optimism

I am full of tough hope

He was out of food, but he could look tomorrow and he could build a signal fire tomorrow and get more wood tomorrow . . . The

Misery is optional.

It stopped him, the idea of giving thanks. At first his mind just stopped and he thought, for what? For the plane crash, for being here? I should thank somebody for that? Then a small voice, almost a whisper, came into his mind and all it said was: It could have been worse; you could have been down in the plane with the pilot. And

Brian had once had an English teacher, a guy named Perpich, who was always talking about being positive, thinking positive, staying on top of things.

being positive, thinking positive, staying on top of things.

Tomorrow. He watched the flames and smiled. Tomorrow I'll see. All things come tomorrow.

Dad still believes that everything will always work out. I believe that nothing ever happens like you think it will. But both of us know that real life is always a million times better than anything you can imagine.

Hush, child. Don't be so hard on yourself. Everyone gets to start over again. This America, hon. One dream dies, you get another.

Poor Sasha. Not meant for these times, Ed said. They were both somehow cheered up by this conversation. But he means well.

In my life I've discovered that if I cling to the notion that something's not possible, I'm arguing in favor of limitation. And if I argue for my limitations, I get to keep them.

You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

The hope in her voice now made me think of a flower growing in shadow.

The world is filled half with evil and half with good. We can tilt it forward so that more good runs into our minds, or back, so that more runs into this.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

He who has never hoped can never despair

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful side to everything.

He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.