Quotes About Optimism

That's the paradox of the growth mindset. Although it seems to draw attention to failure, and in fact encourages us to seek out failure, it is unflaggingly optimistic. We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down—but throughout, we'll get better, and we'll succeed in the end.

Finding bright spots, then, solves many different problems at once.

We need to be looking for bright spots—however tiny!—and rewarding them.

What's working, and how can we do more of it?" Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: "What's broken, and how do we fix it?

There's nine times more to gain by elevating positive customers than by eliminating negative ones.

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?

A problem is a problem only if you believe it to be so.

Once I said to my mother, As long as there's fresh bread in this world, things can't be beyond repair.

There will be challenges—which worthwhile endeavor doesn't have them?—but I am prepared. Love will give me strength. Do not worry about me. It will be a grand adventure.

Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

It was hard not to be full of hope

Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?

I looked around me at the beautiful sunrise and I was thinking, Yes, yes, everything will be beautiful like this now. I will never be afraid again. I will never spend another day trapped in the color gray.

The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You

It is possible to do good things with an imperfect situation.

I suppose we ought to be getting home, in any case." "Oh god, is it wartime already?" "Look on the bright side: it'll be dinner when we get back.

One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

Who knows, Walter? Maybe I can.

Or as Thomas Edison put it, "Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.