Quotes About Optimism

In your worst and darkest moments remember that you have seen another kind of world. Remember that you can reach it whenever you choose to see. Remember that it will be waiting and that it's real, it's possible - it's yours.

This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.

The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my books.

I left Tehran on June 24, 1997, for the green light that Gatsby once believed in.

I can't be Pollyanna all the time. There is a certain risk in what we do. We have the power to make someone's dream come true, but we also have the power to crush it forever.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.

The title of Reverend Wright's sermon that morning was "The Audacity of Hope.

We are a people of improbable hope.

this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal ...~~Barack Obama upon winning the Democratic nomination for presidency conveys his thinking of what that means ....for the world, Tuesday, JUNE 03, 2008

over time I've trained myself to take the long view, about how important it is to stay focused on your goals rather than getting hung up on the daily ups and downs.

And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words -yes, we can.

America will rise again. And hope will rise again.

That feels like what happened. A collective, unspoken decision was made that for a few weeks at least, the country would take a much-needed break from cynicism.

Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies, I tell my daughters—and at least that was true for me at Harvard.

I'd never once heard her dwell on the disappointments. Instead she seemed to find small pleasures everywhere.

wish I had your optimism. Sometimes I do. But people can be so selfish and just plain ignorant. I think a lot of people don't want to be bothered. And I think politics seems like it's full of people willing to do anything for power, who just think about themselves.

I'm not yet ready to abandon the possibility of America—not just for the sake of future generations of Americans but for all of humankind.

You gave them hope." "They need more than hope," I said.

The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.

The responsibility of tackling these problems didn't scare me. In fact, I relished the chance. But from everything I was learning, things were likely to get significantly worse before they got better.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Donot wait for good things to happen to you.If you out and make some good things happen,you will fill the world with hope,you will fill yourself with hope.

I was actually doing in my life. I was like a young Walter Mitty; a Don Quixote with no Sancho Panza.

We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort.