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Quotes About Optimism

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.
~ Roger Federer
Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
~ Oscar Wilde
The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.
~ Paul Gauguin
To the man of faith, there is always a future.
~ T. B. Joshua
When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs' and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and 'tough it out'.
~ John Wayne
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
~ George MacDonald
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
~ Robert Browning
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.
~ Vince Staples
Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.
~ J. P. Morgan
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
~ Gary Cooper
Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.
~ Helen Rowland
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.
~ John Kennedy Toole
There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: 'Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'
~ Amy Carmichael
I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.
~ Bruce Barton
Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I'm just doing better than what everybody projected.
~ Big Sean
If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
~ Stanislaw Lem
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
~ Napoleon Hill
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
~ Ralph Ellison
Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.
~ Paul Halmos
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.
~ A. H. Weiler
Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living
~ Aga Khan III