Quotes About Optimism

Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven-- All's right with the world!

How do you keep this place running?" I said. "How did you think it would work in the first place?" She smiled. "I was dumb enough to give it a try.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance.

Nothing splendid has ever been achived except by those who dare belive that something inside of them was superior to circumstance

Nothing splendid is ever achieved except by those who believe something inside of them is greater than circumstance

He was strident in his writing, but never desperate. The tone let his officers and politicians know that the situation was critical, but that somehow a solution could be found. It was a tone he would maintain throughout the war, constantly preparing his correspondents for the worst, but hoping for the best.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

If I lose and have nothing when this is over, you can still drop me with my guitar by parachute anywhere in America; I'll walk to the nearest roadhouse, find a pickup band and light up your night. Just because I can.

Gavin did not enjoy his hard work. The optimistic startup guys sending in these crazy proposals were guys who enjoyed their work. Gavin had the solid, old-fashioned idea that work should be painful, so that people would pay you for doing it. If the "work" was fulfilling, then work was a form of entertainment. The workers should be paying people for being entertained.»

What You're Going Through Is Only Temporary

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

He believed that the non-Christian enjoys a false optimism by living partly on the basis of Christian presuppositions. Schaeffer aimed to destroy that by pushing the person toward the despair and darkness to which his or her non-Christian presuppositions logically led.

By 1932 his debt had grown to more than four million dollars, far more than his net worth. "Aren't you concerned about owing all this money you can't pay?" Ernest Closuit asked him. "No," Murchison said with a smile. "If you're gonna owe money, owe more than you can pay, then the people can't afford to foreclose.

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

If you cannot immediately change your undesirable situation, you can choose the practice of appreciation.