Quotes About Optimism

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.

We loved life more than the future.

There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

But do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it's painted.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

Beneath the damage she can still find moments of wonder, hints of joy. Would she even say she is optimistic? It isn't the shiny optimism that lifts Samuel, but it's a hard-won kind, born from the depths. A choice. It is enough.

When all hope is lost, don't you dare give in..look up with a grin,and just win..

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.