Quotes About Optimism

I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.

No one will steal my joy.

I am grateful for all the moments that I have, and I'm moving forward one step at a time to the future.

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.

And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.

I grew up a loser, and I always felt like one, but I turned out pretty okay. I may be living proof that you can spend your whole life feeling like you're falling down a set of steps and still maybe land on your feet at the bottom.

I am not in a hurry... I take slow steps but never go backwards.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Believing you cannot do it, does not make it so, believing you can do it must be your only option.

The world's failure to live up to the impossible promises of the positive-thinking credo did not convince these men of the credo's impracticality, but rather that the world was in a sad state of decline, that it had forsaken the true and correct path.2

SDS's wildly optimistic first principle: that all humans were "infinitely precious and possessed of unfulfilled capacities for reason, freedom, and love.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good.

This can sound rather grim, but it does have a positive flip-side: It suggests that our negative assessments of other people are less likely than our positive assessments to be correct, and we should give our foes another chance.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.