Quotes About Optimism

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind, and not fruitful.

God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world!

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him, indeed they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

Happiness hates the timid!

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Happiness walks on busy feet.

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.

1 am happy and content because I think I am.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land."

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.