Quotes About Optimism

Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope.

All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come.

What she said was something about trusting that everything, no matter how horrible it might seem at the moment, ultimately turns out to be a blessing.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

With new hope. We build new lives. Why complain when it rains? This is what it means to be free.

the skyscrapers of God dominated the countryside. They had made them as high as possible, extraordinarily high. It may seem a disproportion in the ensemble. Not at all, it was an act of optimism, a gesture of courage, a sign of pride, a proof of mastery! In addressing themselves to God, men did not sign their own abdication.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Hell yes, baby. I can pollinate a rose garden with my smile

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. But He's a charitable Lord: He only lets you see one day at a time. When times get tough, there's no choice except to take a deep breath, carry on, and do the best you can.

It looks bad right now, but remember, this too shall pass.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

There's nothing that funny about failure.

sic]Keep looking up, Mama used to tell me. There's nothing on the ground but your feet.

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

If we don't blow ourselves up, the future will be wonderful.

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.