Quotes About Optimism

Some hopes were weeds, easy to eradicate with a yank and a pull. Some, however, were vines, fast growing, tenacious, and impossible to clear. As she played the music box again, alone in the drawing room, she began to realize that hers were of the latter kind. She would never stop hoping.

enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.

Despite the seriousness of our moment, I write with optimism. Once aware, we can begin to rethink our practices. When we do, conversation is there to reclaim. For the failing connections of our digital world, it is the talking cure.

No, indeed. I'm an optimist. Or is it called crazy when a person keeps doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome?

Seeing things through your eyes has reminded me how important it is to stop and find the joy in living again.

Self-assurance, optimism, productivity, attachments of caritas to others, pride in our physical selves—these are all philosophies that enhance living. They are wellsprings largely of our own making, and they can grow in significance as we let their energies pour into the ever-widening, deepening channel of experience and wisdom.

Hope can still exist even when rescue is impossible.

Share your optimisms and keep your pessimisms to yourself.

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

without emboldening people to envisage the unlikely, we increase risk rather than diminish it.

tell them that both optimists and pessimists die in the end, but the optimist leads a hopeful and happy existence while the pessimist spends his days cynical and downtrodden. It is too high a price to pay. Besides, optimism is a prerequisite of progress. It provides the inspiration we need, especially in hard times.

I have earned the title of expert, it is only on what was. There is no expert on what will be. And yet, without knowing the future, I remain a man full of hope.

a paz não só é possível, como é inevitável. O otimismo que sinto é função não apenas da minha identidade, mas da História. A História, afinal, é um poderoso antídoto para uma visão cínica do mundo.

I want there to be great expectations for Japan.

You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.

You've got to S-M-I-L-E To be H-A-Double-P-Y

Shirley Temple Black

winners see the gain; losers see the pain.

If you think you can - you can ! If you think you can not - you can not ! And either way........you are right !

Looking for the positive does not necessarily mean overlooking faults. being a positive thinker does not mean one has to agree or accept everything. It only means that a person is solution-focused.

Super achievers don't waste time in unproductive thoughts, esoteric thoughts or catastrophic thoughts. They think constructively and they know that their level of thinking determines their success.