Quotes About Optimism

It's only a lost cause when everyone gives up on it.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been I have great faith in a seed

Personally, I don't like inherently happy people. I don't trust them. I think there's something seriously wrong with anyone who isn't at least a little let down by the world.

I hate that word, CAN'T. I wish it had never been dreamed up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN'T could be eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

But the psychologist Steven Pinker has argued that good news tends to unfold slowly, while bad news is often more sudden.

Hoop nodded. "Everything's good." "For now," Ripley said. "Only for now. Nothing stays good for long. Not ever.

Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.

I'm young and happy. I'll never die.

Liam Rector's "Song Years": "Change is hard and hope is violent".

The odds are never impossible," Thrawn said calmly. "Merely unfavorable.

Where there's life, there's the hope of change.

And if you can, die laughing.

People have hope, because they cannot see death standing behind them.

We're never too old for dreams.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world; someone to love, something to do and something to hope for.

To some extent this area was foreshadowed by pioneering humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, who wrote about the self-actualized or fulfilled person, and Carl Rogers, who once noted that he was pessimistic about the world, but optimistic about people.

That was the problem with Europeans. No optimism, too often they looked for things that would go wrong instead of right.

even though, as children, we hear our parents complaining every night about their bosses or co-workers, it doesn't put us off the world of work. We think it will be different for us.

After all, why be right when you can be happy.

If you keep things simple, and look to the end, not the problems in the way, most things turn out to be possible.

When you open your mind to the possibility that your capabilities are unlimited and unknown, you already have your running shoes on and are ready to race forward.

if team members believe that every idea gets fair consideration, and that a meritocracy allows their proposals to be judged across divisional and hierarchical lines, they tend to put all of their energy and their creative talents to work on ideas and proposals for change. They work harder, persist longer, and maintain their urgent optimism when they believe victory is just around the corner.