Quotes About Optimism

Maybe not today, Maybe not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line, there has to be a light.

Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.

After listening to my entire story, he quietly said: You can say, This is impossible, terrible.' Or you can say, 'This is beautiful, wonderful.' You can imagine that you're in exile. Or you can imagine that you have more than one home.

Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her a few moments of grace.

I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them;

pain "is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Hope, in a technical sense, is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right. Snyder defines it with more specificity as "believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be." People

Optimism, like hope, means having a strong expectation that, in general, things will turn out all right in life, despite setbacks and frustrations.

optimism is an attitude that buffers people against falling into apathy, hopelessness, or depression in the face of tough going.

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around

some studies have found that pessimists smoke and drink more, and exercise less, than optimists, and are generally much more careless about their health

Un estudio evaluó el grado de optimismo o pesimismo de ciento veintidós hombres que habían sufrido un primer ataque cardíaco. Ocho años más tarde, veintiuno de los veinticinco más pesimistas habían muerto, mientras que sólo habían fallecido seis de los veinticinco más optimistas. Este

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for failure, ascribing it to some lasting characteristic they are helpless to change.

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong."24 FLOW:

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far

How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve?

I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.

Eu estava em uma escada rolante para baixo agora. Se eu ficasse parado, iria direto pra baixo, mas, se eu começasse a subir a escada, talvez conseguisse ao menos ficar no mesmo lugar. O importante era seguir me movendo pra cima independentemente do que acontecesse.

However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones — only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments.

What good is always being happy? Sadness hints at the possibility of a future reward.

I always tried to bring confidence to the game.

I know the rain is cold my dear, but dance in it a little while you wait for the sun.

Life is just learning to dance in the rain – enjoy every drop and enjoy every pain!

Weather is a great metaphor for life sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain.