Quotes About Optimism

I always think something to look forward to is usually better than the thing itself. At least looking forward to something gives you the will to live.

And as my old friend Irene Kamp used to quote some French guy who said, 'Everything will work out, but badly.

In 1990 [Claudette Colbert] wished Vanity Fair readers "a fabulous new decade. I'm praying to make it to 2000. After all, I'll only be 97." She didn't quite make it.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

We'll get there!

Among the key reasons for wishing to spend another day in my life is the hope."

As long as you believe you are able, then there is no reason for it not to happen

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

Pessimism and optimism often come as a pair. In Adorno's case, his deep pessimism about the contemporary social world is coupled with a strong optimism about human potential. In fact, it is the latter which explains his negative views about the contemporary social world and his demand that we should resist and change it

He's so optimistic that he would buy a burial suit with a change of pants!

Rumour has it that, after his election, Trump declared: "Yesterday, we were on the edge of the abyss but today, we have taken a big step forward!"

A joy in living, a natural expression of the will to survive all personal disaster, can be constant despite whatever changes take place. Some fortunate people are born with it and others acquire it through learning and growth.

In many cases the problem does not lie with someone paying too much attention to the dark side of things, it is actually due to our overemphasis on bright and positive things — sometimes that brightness can be so blinding that it damages our ability to see things clearly.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

Life has much of harmony yet in store for you.

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.