Quotes About Optimism

Stop crying about dying, and start smiling about living.

Hope is determination, you think. Hope is desperation. Hope is a yearning you can't deny. And hope is just plain old-fashioned insanity.

What would have to be true for the option under consideration to work out fantastically?

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

Look for the good instead of the bad, the right instead of the wrong, the beauty instead of the blight, the joy instead of the sorrow. Do this and you'll always have something good to say.

Why waste your time and energy looking for the negative, finding it, and then bringing other people down by talking about it all the time? Doesn't it make a lot more sense to look for the good, find the good, and then celebrate it with others?

I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

I've had thousands of problems in my life. Most of which never actually happened.

The Prophet also said that the affair of believers is all good. Even if something unpleasant occurs, there is good in it.

Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.

I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

In other words, the Quangels were like most people: they believed what they hoped.

All was darkness, and she had been full of fear and apprehension, and then the sun had peeped through the clouds once more.

?nsan? ayakta tutan ?ey umut olmal?. Ölmekte olan bir ki?inin kafas?ndan silinen son duygunun da umut oldu?unu san?yorum.

And when I have finished crying, the sun is still outside my window, the cool fragrant curtains sway in the gentle breeze. Life is still here, young and smiling. You can begin again at any time, it only depends on you.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

only he is lost who gives himself up for lost!

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.