Quotes About Optimism

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Like her creator, Hattie is a terminal optimist; what else is there to say?

There is very little bad from which good cannot be pressed.

While the no answer is not ideal, if you say over and over a number of times, "No now is not a no forever," you will feel better about yourself, shake off this one occurrence, and get back to asking again.

Old Pops and I have got four good legs between us," he said. "Maybe that's enough.

Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him, and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.

What the Zamperinis were experiencing wasn't denial, and it wasn't hope. It was belief.

It remains a mystery why these three young men, veterans of the same training and the same crash, differed so radically in their perceptions of their plight. Maybe the difference was biological; some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt. As a toddler, Louie had leapt from a train

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.

The waiting's not the hard part. Waiting can be beautiful, lush, full of possibility.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

Hope is a funny thing when you think about it. It's something you always have. You just have to believe you do.

I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes.

And now, tonight, we're living through the bitter part, or maybe the painful, burning part. But more sweetness will come, sooner or later. Trust that it will.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not

If a negative state is assumed in life, then you have to call attention to its absence.

La gente que llega tarde suele ser increíblemente optimista.

Resilient schedules help us see time as abundant, not scarce.

This conscious decision to hunt for the positive can help combat the common tendency to focus on dark moments, the sort that lead us to stormy conclusions about whether life with a big career and a family is doable. Sometimes things look bleak, but life is not all black-and-white.