Quotes About Optimism

To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.

ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

Banish doubt. When doubt is banished, abundance flourishes and anything is possible.

It says, "Dear Wayne: The sun is shining behind the clouds.

By choosing to hang on to one's corner of freedom even in the worst situations, we can process our world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend our circumstances.

I always entertain great hopes. —Robert Frost

enjoy each step along the way and keep in mind that every goal is possible from here. Just do one thing, one day at a time.

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little?

those who held on to a vision of the future were the ones throughout this ordeal who seemed to have a better chance for survival.

Michelangelo regarding this subject: "The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, it's that they are too low, and we do.

in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart…. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.

Have a happy mind.

Replace all negativity with love.

Keep in mind that when you've reached the valley floor, the only direction you can go is upward.

Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!

He was a humorous, good-natured man, maybe because he hoped for little and expected less and took his satisfactions where he found them.

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts...

The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

When all the world is young, lad,And all the trees are green;And every goose a swan, lad,And every lass a queen;Then hey for boot and horse, lad,And round the world away:Young blood must have its course, lad,And every dog his day.

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.