Quotes About Optimism

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is almost always right

Make the best o' things that smoothes people's roads the most..

I'm an old man now and have had a great many problems. Most of them never happened.

A man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire at everything he sees, he is bound to hit something by and by.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

I`ve had a very difficult life. Fortunately, most of it didn`t happen.

For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

All the memories in the world, good or bad, are not worth one slender hope for the future; and

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Make the best o' things the way you find 'em..

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little." Mark Twain

Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The place I felt most welcome and comfortable was AA meetings, even though there was a sticky-sweet optimism there I found insufferable.

His romance and charm lay in how well he did with what might have been and how gracefully he accepted what was.

There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay.

It's a nice idea but it reeks of hope. False hope.

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy. Alles ist Scheisse, he announced. All is shit.

As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.