Quotes About Optimism

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

A man full of hope will be full of action.

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.