Quotes About Optimism

Wenn man einem Mann zeigt, wie nichtig seine Hoffnung und sein Hoffen war, tötet man den hellen bejahenden Teil in ihm, der geliebt werden möchte.

I understood their hopeful, innocent excitement, and in a small and distant way I even shared it.

Things will turn out right, the voice of her heart said to her. Everything will be all right.

E' un bene conoscere cosa cè di sbagliato al mondo, ma è altrettanto importante sapere che per quanto il mondo sia sbagliato tu non puoi cambiarlo, ma vorrei credere che se agiamo nel modo giusto tutto può cambiare in meglio.

inspired by their optimism and enthusiasm.

I'd learned to admire his unshakeable optimism. I'd come to depend on the comforting warmth his great smile provided.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humor, and it turns up where you least expect it.

Anarchists...' I began and then faltered. 'No political philosophy I ever heard of loves the human race as much as anarchism. Every other way of looking at the world says that people have to be controlled, and ordered around, and governed. Only the anarchists trust human beings enough to let them work it out for themselves. And I used to be that optimistic once. I used to believe and think like that. But I don't, any more. So, no--I guess I'm not an anarchist now.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

She was used and abused, and I, for one, would've expected her to be more cynical. Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

hope, which is the opposite of hate;

Don't worry... It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future

Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.

Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.

I don't see things from a worm's perspective but a bird's perspective. I smile at problems.