Quotes About Optimism

He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey

Full of hope, you'll relax, confident again; you'll look around, sit back, and take it easy.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

In a culture that prizes the can-do, self-starter attitude, to be a pessimist is simply to be a complainer – if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. To live in such a culture is to constantly live in the shadow of an obligatory optimism, a novel type of coercion that is pathologized early on in child education in the assessment: "Does not like to play with others.

There is no surer sign of pessimism than an overly-optimistic person.

For optimists, the most perplexing question is how one becomes a pessimist – if one is not born one. For the pessimist, the question is how each person, by virtue of being born, is not already a pessimist.

There is no better occasion for pessimism than optimism.

Voltaire once described optimism as "a cruel philosophy with a consoling name," which immediately suggests what pessimism might be: a consoling philosophy with a cruel name.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Happy! That will-o'-the-wisp.

Anyone who has an egg to watch over has a stake in the future, and the future--they were sure of it--was going to be good .

People who've suffered don't have time to grumble.

And when Finn complained at the end of a day that they had not come very far, she said, "What does it matter? We've got all the time in the world." Which is not always a clever thing to say.

Positive psychologists insisted that people need to increase their happiness not only when things go wrong, but also when things go well, thus introducing a fundamentally new role to academic psychology: not only correcting suffering, but maximizing selfhood.

that however deep your despair, there is always hope. Life is very precious and beautiful – and no one should waste it.

I've always liked hardware stores. All the glues and the garbage pails and the adzes and insect zappers. Makes you feel good. Some people think hardware stores are testaments to decay. Proofs that the creation exists to unmake itself, that everything's heading drainward. Negative. Just take a look, and all those stores are arguing precisely the opposite - that the world can be made better, significantly better, in, like, endless numbers of ways. They're seriously optimistic places—

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.

Do not look back, do not regret, take life as it comes and make the most of it. That was Ada Mae's way, and in time it would be her daughter's way, too.

Your happiness is always worth it! No matter what.

The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persevering. He is honest, and he is real. He's an optimist, and he's a relentless believer in America and all of her potential. He loves his family, and he loves his country with his heart and his soul.

And that is that we have never been: a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that's who we need to remain.

People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.