Quotes About Optimism

Instead of saying, "That's an ugly shirt. Why are you wearing that?", find one thing you like about it–maybe the color, maybe the way it fits the person, maybe how pressed it is, maybe the texture–then begin with that. You could say, "Cool shirt. What's that about?" The point is to find and focus on the positives, as opposed to the negatives of any situation.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." -Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

First, I need to convince you that human progress has, on balance, been a good thing, and that, despite the constant temptation to moan, the world is as good a place to live as it has ever been for the average human being – even now in a deep recession.

Today, the drumbeat has become a cacophony. The generation that has experiences more peace, freedom, leisure time, education, medicine, travel, movies, mobile phones, and massages than any generation in history is lapping up gloom at every opportunity.

But so long as somewhere somebody is incentivised to invent ways of serving others' needs better, then the rational optimist must conclude that the betterment of human lives will eventually resume.

On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us? THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

despite the constant temptation to moan, the world is as good a place to live as it has ever been for the average human being – even now in a deep recession.

Know that there's nothing more optimistic than springtime in Paradise Valley, but if you need year-round renewal memorize this line from a Richard Hugo poem set in Philipsburg so you have it handy for life's little cold snaps: "The car that brought you here still runs.

After a storm comes a calm.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.

Criticizing yourself all the time or being overly judgmental of a situation is like wearing dark sunglasses indoors.

He gazed thoughtfully at the piece of fabric in her hand. 'Hope' he said, and gave a little smile. 'A quality I should have thought you already possessed in abundance.

if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.

During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.

The wonderful thing about reality is that it is highly flexible. One minute, all is doom; the next, everything is abloom with possibility.

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, even if it's weird.

Is that going to work? she said. We have to try. She nodded. She got that. You have to try. Trying is the first step to whatever comes next.

That Nate was feeling so positive should have served as a warning, but people rarely recognize signs when they appear.

That's how you win at life. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, there's always a solution, even if it's weird.