Quotes About Optimism

You will find that life's still worthwhile... if you just smile!

Massoud is dead, but not the hope ! (Massoud est mort, Mais pas l'espoir !)

To pluck the fruit of hope, we must be as high as him. (Pour cueillir de l'espoir le fruit, Il faut être aussi haut que lui)

"In case anything turned up," which was his [Mr. Micawber's] favorite expression.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

As good as gold [Tiny Tim].

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!

And what's the best of all," he said, "you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the sun shone. That's the best of all.

Make the betht of uth; not the wurtht!

So he whistles it off, and marches on

I dare say our is likely to be a rather long engagement, but our motto is "Wait and hope!" We always say that. "Wait and hope!" we always say.

Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospects of Life and brightened it so much that is scarcely seemed the same.

He was a dreamer in such wise, because he was a man who had, deep-rooted in his nature, a belief in all the gentle and good things his life had been without.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals...

Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.