Quotes About Optimism

Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope's finest expression. In hope's loss, however, is the greatest despair.

there is something really optimistic and inspiring about waking up every day as if it's a new day, and not being defined in terms of who you were yesterday

Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely

But she has always felt that her thirties were going to be her best decade, and since she is still lingering in her twenties, there is no hurry.

pipe dream." This term meant the same then as it does today, a way of describing an irrational sense of optimism. Irrational or not, this is opium's greatest gift to the smoker: boundless optimism—the kind that one rarely experiences beyond childhood. All good things seem possible; problems are easily solvable; obstacles are always surmountable.

As we care about more of humanity, we're apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen.

Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous, and wrenching. Calculus draws its power by refusing to see that. It insists on a world without accidents, where one thing leads logically to another. Give me the initial conditions and the law of motion, and with calculus I can predict the future -- or better yet, reconstruct the past. I wish I could do that now.

Research indicates unrealistic optimism and related traits—including the sense of invulnerability and the blunting cognitive style—may be associated with low levels of pandemic-related anxiety and nonadherence to hygiene and other health recommendations. People who score highly on such traits would be particularly likely to spread contagion during a pandemic.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

Every day is a brand new day!

The warming springtime of human hope does not give in to the wintry smiles of the cynic and the realist; it blossoms and it perishes in the sad autumnal winds. And then it is born again - for ever and ever.

The greatest virtue in Man is his undying sense of hope.

Magic is optimism and hope, isn't it? The desire for more than what is mundane to appear.

He sounded sceptical, but Othman sensed the hope in his words, that dreary, desperate hope. He smiled.

We do not know the future, but we can work toward the best possible outcome.

Come now, lad, there's no room for a down look like that on your bonny face.

Funny how the camera had so quickly lost all its depressing associations. Ari looked on this as a good omen.

But to try to achieve something massively significant in a field where you're by and large useless after your fortieth birthday—and my father was seventy-seven—is the height of both delusion and optimism.

To this day I don't understand this country well. The cheery optimism. The lack of concern about the past. The openness to strangers who simply show a smile and give a firm handshake

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.