Quotes About Optimism

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.

Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.

Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.

The situation could not possibly be as dire as it seemed or they would all be dead.

For the most part they were oddly cheerful. Beyond a certain point it was all just kicking through wreckage.

And so even if Hope was a contrived thing — a mechanism that popped up out of Pandora's Box by dint of levers and springs — it was by no means bad.

You must carry along with you a lively imagination and plenty of romance in your soul. Some of the most wonderful things in the world will seem dull and drab unless you view them in the proper light.

It's a pretty good little old place after all, and I have little time for the gloomers who are eternally shrieking that this old mud ball is rolling to the bow wows. I am satisfied to take my chances with this one, thank you, and not worry about the next…

But how then can I be truly grateful for something I know is not there? Faith. If you have but the faith of a mustard seed, you shall move mountains. You

If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living.

I mean, I'm as fucked up and miserable as the next person, but I don't let it get me down. You know?

I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.