Quotes About Optimism

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.

F? ce po?i cu ce ai, acolo unde e?ti.

Believe that you can and you are halfway there

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Life is too long not to be happy.

Be excited and encouraged. Don't let the unknown become a source of fear.

One of the biggest benefits of the low-hanging fruits effort is to show the naysayers that it can be done.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

By June 1943 King became cautiously optimistic. In a letter to Vice Admiral Andrews he wrote, "The U-boat situation looks very encouraging for the time being. In these matters I am afraid I am a hard-boiled skeptic — but I am always glad to be disappointed in my pessimism!

For the history of our country during the last hundred and sixty years is eminently the history of physical, of moral, and of intellectual improvement. Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in their imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay: but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be." That makes it clear as glass.

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.