Quotes About Optimism

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

In adversity man is saved by hope.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Every man's entitled to hope.

hopes dance best on bald men's hair

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

Don't worry," I said. "These men are good. They're going to heal the world.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

We can see a man smiling without legs or without hands, but we can't see a man smiling without hope!

The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

I feel like a young man of 15.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.