Quotes About Optimism

The most powerful weapon is hope.

Hope fought hard to stay alive. Even when you thought it was beaten to nothing, burned to ashes, drowned deep, still it flickered away, waiting to be found again.

You must hold on to hope, or this cannot happen. Let hope go, and your battle is lost.

We don't say cannot here at Shadowfell,' Tali put in firmly, silencing him. 'And we don't say impossible.

Inventions have long-since reached their limit--and I see no hope for further developments. -- Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.

I liked my feet and my legs and I liked how I walked into a room, expecting to find people who would be glad to see me.

If the ship sinks, we're going down with a cheer and a good drink under our belts anyway.

Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.

There's always hope. And when that fails, there's guile and wile.

You don't really believe in nothing, do you? I believe in possibilities...

I can turn the fields over, start again. It's sure to rain soon. Wheat's sure to grow.

now and again, to keep a person hoping. But even if it didn't your daddy would have to believe. It's coming on spring and he's a farmer.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don't. More stars are always better than less.

You're not fine. You're losing." "From a certain point of view, possibly," said Obi-Wan. Then he smiled, a feral baring of teeth. "But I prefer to think of it as … not winning at the moment. So we go.

dwelling on life's restrictions didn't do much for anyone's morale.

You've fallen into the habit of feeling low. You can get used to anything, especially bad things. But the only direction now is up. You can't fall off the floor.

He grinned. "It's cheaper than that

There are good days and bad days, and as long as there aren't too many of either, you get along with your life fine.

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

Sweet sixteen, Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you. Ursula still harbored the feeling that some of her future was also behind her but she had learned not to voice such things.

Best always to praise rather than criticize.

No point in thinking," she said briskly, "you just have to get on with life." (She really was turning into Miss Woolf.) "We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try." (The transformation was complete.) "What if we had a chance to do it again and again," Teddy said, "until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?" "I think it would be exhausting.