Quotes About Optimism

So much about life was disappointment. He often wondered how humankind endured so long, and if the few moments when things went right really made up for all the rest.

Great success often depends upon being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.

No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

It won't be like that for me," Kaladin said. "You told me it would get worse." "It will," Wit said, "but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.

in case Wayne failed." "Which never happens." Wayne grinned and took a bite of his apple, hopping off his steps to walk beside Waxillium. "Except that one time. And that other one time. But those don't matter, onnacount of my getting hit to the head enough times that I can't remember them.

Past failure does not prove that there is not chance in the future, yes?

Logically," Shallan said, "the bright side is the only side you can look on, because the other side is dark.

When the situation seems hopeless you need Lift: "Relax, grandpa. Steal the rock. I can do that.

She didn't see death, she saw life. She saw faith.

What is more one try, then?" Her voice was soft, yet somehow stronger than the storm. "What could it hurt?

not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Kelsier had, apparently, insisted on laughing, no matter how bad the situation. It had been a form of rebellion to him.

That was the thing about omens—they were made up. Imagined signals of something nebulous. So why not make them up to be something positive?

You told me it would get worse." "It will," Wit said, "but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.

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They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.

They don't see losing a third of the city as a disaster—they see saving two-thirds of it as a miracle.

fate was on your side, even when an omen tried to darken the way. You could always defeat gloomy Passions with optimism and determination.

Don't you see? Hope is a good thing—a wonderful thing—but you must have hope in something appropriate. If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, then you stifle your own dreams of the future.

Great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.

The past is irrelevant. I only look forward." Dalinar was not certain he agreed with either statement.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

Just because you've had misfortune in your past doesn't mean you have to give up on your future.