Quotes About Optimism

Barbara Ann Kipfer

He knew he was being over-optimistic, for no necklace, however magnificent, however expensive, could compensate a woman for losing him.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Every failure has an equally big upside if you are willing to stay in the game.

Life through a child's eye has to be supersized to hold the huge wealth of possibility she sees.

Hope wasn't the future. It was only a vehicle to get there.

The garden was a black hole when it came to negative thoughts, sucking them right in, making them vanish.

Hope is the future lined in gold

Hope is the future lined in gold, my mother used to say, but I didn't agree. Hope wasn't the future. It was only a vehicle to get there.

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR BANISHING NEGATIVE THOUGHTS.

Don't think about the problems. Think about the possibilities. This could be the beginning of something amazing.

Today was a day for remembering only the good. And there had been a lot of good.

You just have to have faith, child. The bad times will pass. There's only good coming your way

She suffered a tragedy, but she went on. It was the end of something but the beginning of something else." "Maybe." Her grandmother always talked about the importance of looking forward and not back.

Life might throw crap at you, but there's always a silver lining.

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

It was only sometimes, when a spring day came in the middle of winter, that one had a sudden feeling that nothing was really impossible.

Yes, I suppose one feels that life is only tolerable if one takes a romantic view of it,' Leonora agreed.

Success rarely comes to the passive or pessimistic.