Quotes About Optimism

I'm not being pessimistic at all. I think God will eventually destroy this technological civilization. I'm very optimistic about that.

No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

A man should cling to hope.

He made plans to keep himself sane, built castles of hope in the dark.

A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle, " Ser Imry had declared happily.

The light that brings the dawn.

Do not despair, Lord Snow. Despair is a weapon of the enemy, whose name may not be spoken.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness.

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

Letting go of discouragement is no more difficult than holding on to it; and letting go is so much more empowering.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

We must learn not to be afraid, we must rediscover a spirit of hope and a spirit of trust.

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Those who still profess the rule of hope, teach optimism only by force of habit, without believing in what they say.

Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

Master the power of attitude and you'll live a powerful life.

And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up—and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other.