Quotes About Optimism

History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists.

Life should come with such a statement. No Promises. Just lots of hope.

The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse.

It's not always easy, but it's always possible.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Life ain't in holdin' a good hand but in playin' a poor one well.

You're bound to succeed if you have ignorance and confidence.

You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.

He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.

Even the most minor inconvenience, Chrysippus suggested, had been carefully designed by God for our benefit.

lot of the UN staff call themselves human rights experts but need a shoulder to cry on each time there's a killing. They belong in an office in Switzerland. Many of my French friends feign weary resignation whenever violence erupts, but that attitude was picked up on the cheap in some smoke-filled café. They haven't ever struggled and failed, haven't earned their cynicism. Ken's problem isn't cynicism, it's optimism out of control.

O take heart, my brothers. Even now... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her - Even now, O even now, my brothers, Life is in no danger of losing the argument! - For after all .... (as will be shown) She has only to change the subject.

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

My view, is let Mike Dukakis go around there and talk about pink slips, despair, pessimism in the United States. I'll be the guy out there talking about hope and opportunity and challenge, and the fact that the United States is the best, the fairest, the most decent nation on the face of the earth. Let them apologize for America, and let me lead her to new greatness.

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

C. Hope Flinchbaugh

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.