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Quotes About Optimism

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
~ Eric Bogosian
There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.
~ Simon Callow
With the success of 'Yevade Subramanyam' and 'Bhale Magadivoy,' the audience's faith in me has increased, which is a good sign.
~ Nani
Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
~ Peter Diamandis
It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.
~ Ruby Dee
I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.
~ Jim Ratcliffe
I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.
~ Morgan Spurlock
I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that.
~ Rebecca Mader
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
~ Norman Cousins
If you ask me, people are unnecessarily gloomy about the end of the world.
~ Bentley Little
When I wrote "God Bless America," they said it was too corny, but it's still around.
~ berlin irving iii
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.
~ bernanos georges ii
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved.
~ Bernard Beckett
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
~ Bernard Berenson
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
~ Bernard Berenson
et le bon temps viendra.
~ Bernard DeVoto
They were too young to live without hope
~ Bernard Evslin
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
~ Bernard M. Baruch
Every time I open my glasses case nowadays,' he said. 'I am pleasantly surprised to find my glasses.
~ Bernard MacLaverty
Would you say you have a "philosophy" Of your own? If so what is it?' 'If I have it's all skin and bones...If I have any philosophy...it's that life could be better than it is.
~ Bernard Malamud
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
~ Bernard Malamud
1 + 1 = 3 (du moins, je l'espère de tout mon coeur)
~ Bernard Werber
Optimists are just bad-informed people
~ Bernard Werber
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
~ Bernard Williams