Quotes About Optimism

The leaders in our culture are the people who see the possibilities, who can go into a desert and see a garden.

The best opportunities come in times of maximum pessimism," or Warren Buffett's mantra, "Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful

Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming. 

And you know, aunt, I still hope that I shall be found to have kept on the right side of the posts. You will find that poor Lord Chiltern is not so black as he is painted.' 'But why take anybody that is black at all?' 'I like a little shade in the picture, aunt.

Everything smiled on her with gilded dimples, and these were the smiles she valued. As

But, as I have said, Alice had become quite comfortable at Matching Priory. Perhaps she was already growing upwards towards the light.

This was Mr Optimist, the new chairman, in praise of whose appointment the Daily Jupiter had been so loud, declaring that the present Minister was showing himself superior to all Ministers who had ever gone before him, in giving promotion solely on the score of merit. The

Tutti i più ridicoli fantasticatori che nei loro nascondigli di geni incompresi fanno scoperte strabilianti e definitive, si precipitano su ogni movimento nuovo persuasi di poter spacciare le loro fanfaluche. D'altronde ogni collasso porta con sé disordine intellettuale e morale. Bisogna creare uomini sobri, pazienti, che non disperino dinanzi ai peggiori orrori e non si esaltino a ogni sciocchezza. Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.

Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.

pensé en todos los que habitan en las ciudades y en quienes van de una ciudad a otra, de un país a otro, de un planeta a otro planeta, como si en algún lado las cosas fueran a ser mejor, como si en algún lado uno pudiera sacarse los zapatos, y sin temer nunca más, equilibrado en su destino, manejándolo en el puño, palpando directamente el valor y la gallardía en los latidos calientes de la esperanza, decir aquí me quedo y nada me moverá

think I'd prefer tomorrow morning.

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

La esperanza es el sueño del hombre despierto

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Hope is the dream of a waking man

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Confidence is characteristic of a person of hope

Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it. Rhetoric, fourth century BCE (BC)

It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light -Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.