Quotes About Optimism

And from the death of each day's hope, another hope sprang up to live tomorrow.

Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much.

Herbert Pocket had a frank and easy way about him that was very taking. I had never seen anyone then, and I have never seen anyone since, who more strongly expressed to me, in every look and tone, a natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean. There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.

I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.

There are dark shadows on earth, but the lights are always brighter.

He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.

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

What a troublesome world this is, when one has the most right to expect it to be as agreeable as possible.

we had everything before us,

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

Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope.

There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape." Estella in Great Expectations

Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. p.

with a few comforting reflections, of which the chief were, that after all, perhaps, it was well it was no worse; the least said the soonest mended, and upon her word she did not know that it was so very bad after all; what was over couldn't be begun, and what couldn't be cured must be endured; with various other assurances of the like novel and strengthening description.

Si nos detenemos cada vez que oímos dar con el pie en alguna puerta a esa viajera que nunca se detiene, no haríamos mucho ruido en el mundo. ¡No! ¡Adelante! Por los malos caminos si no hay otros, por los buenos si se puede; pero ¡adelante! Saltemos por encima de todos los obstáculos para llegar a la meta.

If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too. Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.