Quotes About Optimism

And remember. Never, in any circumstances, must you despair. To hope and to act is our duty in misfortune. Inactive despair is a forgetting and failure of duty.

To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. To do nothing and to despair is to neglect our duty.

Haven't you ever played Uno?" he asks calmly. "Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.

Remember, just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's impossible.

if you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best... and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.

I know that humour can take on anything.

They had one mantra, and it came straight from the founder of the OSS, Wild Bill Donovan. If you fall, fall forward

As far as he was concerned, he had the three necessary ingredients to happiness: something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

Everything was about state of mind and how he chose to perceive his situation. The people who felt powerless were the ones who wouldn't make it.

I thought yesterday would never end. There was over me a yearning for sleep in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must now be for the better.

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know they will be.

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be.

He came back full of life and hope and determination.

Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!

For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?

La naturaleza trabaja sobre unas bases de esperanza tales que creemos, aun contra nuestras propias creencias, que las cosas saldrán como deben salir, no como sabemos que saldrán.

The first ten books Mr. Segundus looked at were worthless — books of sermons and moralizing from the last century, or descriptions of persons whom no one living cared about. The next fifty were very much the same. He began to think his task would soon be done. But then he stumbled upon some very interesting and unusual works of geology, philosophy and medicine. He began to feel more sanguine.

Today it stopped raining. The World became light of Heart again.

When things come to the worst, they generally mend.

There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?

It'll be okay. She didn't know if it would be okay or not. She somehow doubted it, but what else was there to say?

My advice to anyone who is looking for help in their marriage would be to seek help from someone who sees life in a positive way or gives out positive advice.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

When life gives me pits, I'll plant them and grow cherry trees.