Quotes About Optimism

I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I've survived everything I've had to so far. I'm still standing here.

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

Keep going. You're a mess and you're happy.

no corrían tiempos para abandonarse a la esperanza, aunque casi pudiera tocarla.

If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb

Look for the good," Louise Weir had taught her sons. "The bad happens anyway.

La esperanza expande hacia fuera; el miedo encoge hacia dentro.

But I keep going because I've learned over the past few months that as bad as things seem, they can always get worse.

the single most important decision any of us will ever have to make is whether or not to believe that the universe is friendly.

optimistic sense of the "goodness" of human nature is always the essential fuel for activism.

The attitudinal changes we've seen in recent decades regarding racism, sexism, and homophobia are real, but can encourage simplistic optimism about additional progress.

IF YOU CAN'T FLY THEN RUN, IF YOU CAN'T RUN THEN WALK, IF YOU CAN'T WALK THEN CRAWL, BUT WHATEVER YOU DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD." (MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Only when it is dark enough can we see the stars.

You just have to take the first step , you don't have to see the whole staircase.

Perhaps I have once again been too optimistic. Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world?

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

Dark yesterday can be transformed into bright tomorrow.

Just a sliver of luminosity to give her hope.

No more sorrow and regret! Take heart! A new day is beginning.

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.