Quotes About Optimism

Never look back at your past, everything happens for a reason, keep your head up and look forward. the more you look back the more beautiful things you will miss in life.

Yeah! Everything is okay!

Hope is really a thought.

There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be.

hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

Hope is learned!

I'd rather not be joyful than have to wait for the other shoe to drop.

In very simple terms, hope happens when: We have the ability to set realistic goals (I know where I want to go). We are able to figure out how to achieve those goals, including the ability to stay flexible and develop alternative routes (I know how to get there, I'm persistent, and I can tolerate disappointment and try again). We believe in ourselves (I can do this!).

Hope is a function of struggle. If we want our children to develop high levels of hopefulness, we have to let them struggle.

Voltaire: "Não deixe o perfeito ser o inimigo do bom.

Like most people, I always thought of hope as an emotion—like a warm feeling of optimism and possibility. I was wrong. I was shocked to discover that hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. Emotions play a supporting role, but hope is really a thought process made up of what Snyder calls a trilogy of goals, pathways, and agency.

We need hope like we need air.

It's also important to know that hope is learned.

I'm so excited about the possibility. I'm trying to stay realistic, but I really hope it happens.

I don't know. I really don't. All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

We don't have to pretend that the sun is shining when it isn't, but we must never give up hope that it will shine again.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Despair never won any game. Defeat came quickly to those who thought of it.

Some day. The most hopeful phrase in man's language, the most promising in his thoughts, the most unfulfilled.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea