Quotes About Optimism

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

Por mais mesquinha que seja sua vida, aceite-a e viva-a; não se esquive a ela nem a trate com termos duros. Ela não é tão ruim quanto você

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

Be of good heart: be of good spirit. If the battle is not yet won, it is not yet lost either.

She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.

you mustn't think life will be for you all hard things. You've the right to be happy. You must make up your mind to it. You must accept any form in which happiness may come.

I cling to some saving romance in things.

I thought with joy of the morrow

Imprimis: I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.

The young Hindu, of course, is optimistic. He has been to America and he has been contaminated by the cheap idealism of the Americans, contaminated by the ubiquitous bathtub, the five-and-ten-cent store bric-a-brac, the bustle, the efficiency, the machinery, the high wages, the free libraries, etc., etc.

A world without hope, but no despair.

After that I can face the world

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. Philippians 3:13

But it is better to follow even the shadow of the best than to remain content with the worst.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining

If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving.

Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.