Quotes About Optimism

I give people hope.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

and surely we shall not continue to be unhappy we shall be happy but we shall continue to be ourselves everything continues to be possible

If life were merely a habit, I should commit suicide; but even now, more or less desperate, I cannot but think, 'Something wonderful may happen.' It is not optimism, it is a rejection of self-pity (I hope) which leaves a loophole for life… I merely choose to remain living out of respect for possibility. And possibility is the great good. — Frank O'Hara, Early Writing , 108-9 (1/22/49) Bookpeople (June 1977).

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

The best is yet to come.

Fairy tales can come true It can happen to you If you're young at heart

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Let not defeatists tell us that it is too late. It will never be earlier. Tomorrow will be later than today.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Count the day won when, turning on its axis, This earth imposes no additional taxes.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

Endlich, wie denn in dieser Welt jedes noch so hartnäckige Stehenbleiben doch nur ein unvermerktes Weiterrücken ist, erscheint auch diesem Status quo ein Hoffnungsstrahl.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Even if History doesn't agree, we must also believe in the future in spite of the past, and in God in spite of his absence, or life wouldn't be worth the trouble of living.

Il pessimismo non serve a nulla, è la malattia dei parassiti e degli inconcludenti. Abbiamo dalla nostra la volontà, e questo è l'essenziale. Perciò avremo successo.»

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.