Quotes About Optimism

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure… it does mean you haven't succeeded yet.

...there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night...

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through.

Where there is sunshine the doctor starves.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens — I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people — America is the only idealistic Nation in the world.

Some people say we are on the verge of the second Civil War. And it may be so. But even on the darkest days, cheerfulness kept breaking in.

Every cloud has a silver lining and every plate of vegetable soup is filled with vegetables.

Teacher: Johnny, you only got half the answers right on your test! Johnny: No problem, Teech! Teacher: How can you say that? Johnny: I'm going to be a meteorologist.

It is a question not of hope or despair, but of truth; not of optimism nor of Pessimism, but of wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Try not to worry, as it's sticky and hard to scrub off.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!

It was exhilarating to help bring down the barriers that, in Justice Brennan's words, put women less "on a pedestal" than "in a cage." So much has changed for the better since then. True, we have not reached Nirvana, but the progress I have seen in my lifetime makes me optimistic for the future. Our communities, nation, and world will be increasingly improved as women achieve their rightful place in all fields of human endeavor.

I don't think then of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

...that word which GOD... has written on the brow of every man: hope!

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!

You must finish... every day, & be done with it. For manners, & for wise living, it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could — some blunders & absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as fast as you can tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good & fair. It is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point your way.

Yiipppeeee! It's a new day! A special day. It's today!

Life lesson from the nursery: Broken crayons can still color.