Quotes About Optimism

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door.

felt abandoned by her when she drank, but as long as I wasn't hurt and she was accounted for and alive, I could justify that everything was all right. Never really knowing what I was going to come home to established a constant underlying sense of anxiety in my gut. I remained unrealistically optimistic that every day would be different. Mom would keep her promise and not get drunk at that birthday or that particular function.

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

In fact, the most profitable investments you will ever make are precisely at the times when pessimism is the most rampant.

Whatever happens is the best thing that could happen.

I have no doubt that the elimination of poverty and deprivation is possible by 2020.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

Life will not always be so hard and cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.

The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her.

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

She had very little money, but she wasn't afraid-there was only one place to go, and that was up.

My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it's a good space. Easier said than done.

Guess I'll have to come back another day and try again, Roy thought. That's what a real Florida boy would do.

I believe it's never too late to change. I'm eighty-one years old, but I still think I can be a better person tomorrow than I am today. And that's what I'll believe until I run out of tomorrows.

Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life.

When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is.

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision

Luck is believing your lucky.

He is gallantly smiling, ineluctably smiling, as if to say 'I will be smiling forever.

He is gallantly smiling, ineluctably smiling, as if to say I will be smiling forever.

He had been willing to hold on to hope even when it looked like all hope was lost. She owed him no less.

while there was life there was hope.

Believe for long enough and it will come to pass. Believe it might be so, and it will be so.

You have to make the best of the life you are given.