Quotes About Optimism

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy state of mind of someone who intended to deal with the problem of the ground when it presented itself.

Believe it. That was the way. Never stop believing. Fool the eye, fool the brain.

Don't get your knickers in a knot just yet, Tiff,' she said briskly. 'It won't solve anything an' will just make you walk odd.

There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, lookong past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world

Well, I think, said Nobby, that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for on a cold night wonderin' about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.

But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.

No!" Moist's fist thumped the table. "Never say that, Tolliver! Never! Run before you walk! Fly before you crawl! Keep moving forward!

You didn't have to know Pilu for long to see that he floated through life like a coconut on the ocean. He always bobbed up. There was some sort of natural spring of cheerfulness that bubbled to the surface. Sadness was like a cloud across the sun, soon past. Sorrow was tucked away somewhere in his head, locked up in a cage with a blanket over it, like the captain's parrot.

Ella turned to the fireplace where a blackened kettle hung over what Granny Weatherwax always called an optimist's fire: two logs and hope.

It's a certainty, but it just might work.

it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Commander Vimes always says that when life hands you a mess of spaghetti, you just keep pulling until you find a meatball.

There's always hope. So? There's always taxes, too. It doesn't make any difference.

the damned had been given that insight which makes hardship so easy to bear — the absolute and certain knowledge that things could be worse.

Good work is a stay against despair.

we need not lose hope, we just need to locate where it dwells.

we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.

The pyramid suggests that we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.

Here comes the sun, and I say It's alright

Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können.

Oh, blessed are the children of endeavor in this, that they try and are hopeful. And blessed also are they who, knowing, smile and approve.

Now that Carrie had come, he was in a fair way to be blissful again.

I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong. ... Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today