Quotes About Optimism

That's kind of what my mindset has always been, just focus on every day, and making the most of each day.

No matter how hard it got, I've always been fortunate enough, thinking I'm actually lucky to be here.' I always took that mindset.

'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

But what else could we do but hope? that, after all, is human nature.

That hope never left us, and it sustained us in the years to come, despite the fact that we had no good reason to expect our situation to improve.

some evidence has accumulated that people who habitually fail to put the most favorable cast on their circumstances run the risk of depression.

Don't think of what's past! said she. I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

But since 'tis as 'tis, why, it might have been worse, and I feel my thanks accordingly.

She was carrying an armful of Bibles for her class, and such was her view of life that events which produced heartache in others wrought beatific smiles upon her - an enviable result, although, in the opinion of Angel, it was obtained by a curiously unnatural sacrifice of humanity to mysticism.

It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight.

Time enough to cry when you know 'tis a crying matter; 'tis bad to meet troubles half-way.

there's life there's hope is a conviction not so entirely unknown to the betrayed as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

O sweet To-morrow!— After to-day There will away This sense of sorrow. Then let us borrow Hope, for a gleaming Soon will be streaming, Dimmed by no gray— No gray!

Als er een weg is naar het Betere, vraagt dat om een onbelemmerde blik op het Ergste.

No man can be a cynic and live.

The world will not be this way within the reach of my arm.

Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.

Half a loaf is better than no bread

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

A schlemihl is a schlemihl. What can you make out of one? What can one make out of himself? You reach a point, and Profane knew he had reached it, where you know how much you can and cannot do. But every now and again he got attacks of acute optimism.