Quotes About Optimism

Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst?

Life keeps going. You think it'll stop, wait for you to be done crying, but it just keeps moving. Don't spend your time looking back. You don't want to miss what's ahead.

The glass can be half empty or half full." Leni knew the glass was broken.

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

But now it is time to look ahead, not behind.

Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare? Wasn't that what her father's lesson always was? Prepare for the worst.

Some people see a glass as half empty; some see it as half full. I put the glass in a cupboard and forget it's there. You get my point?

Maybe we'll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning

But everything takes a different shape when we pass from abstractions to reality. In the former, everything must be subject to optimism, and we must imagine the one side as well as the other striving after perfection and even attaining it. Will this ever take place in reality?

In conclusion, the good can be made better; the bad remains bad.

Only someone in his twenties can take such delirious propositions seriously. You have to be a twentysomething to believe that they can be turned into a theory of the world.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Everything is possible and everything is easy, if you put your mind to it.

People have always said, "Life sucks, and then you die," but Wesley never wanted to believe that. He wanted to believe that life was what you made it. He wanted to believe that anything was possible. But reality was a bitch that he was only beginning to understand.

I developed the unprovable theory that the best things in life begin in the rain.

I knew that in a few minutes I'd have to enter a happy, unthinking world. A world that revolved around the solid pedestal of money, with an optimistic view I knew something about from listening to the conversations of my friends.

Every 'no' means you're one step closer to 'yes.

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

I don't mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I've done as well as I possibly could.

Never lose your sense of humor. Tomorrow could be worse.

And I believe him. For the first moment since the Prophet has made his announcement, I feel like maybe, maybe, I have a chance. (44)

Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.