Quotes About Optimism

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

tendency to seize upon the most optimistic timetable for completing a project and ignore any information that might make you revise that prediction. According

You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem.

Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.

Be cheerful, work hard, laugh a lot, be light of heart, because though the cold might kill you, it hadn't yet. Instead, it gave you what you needed to live.

Please understand that there is no one depressed in this house. We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

My sense of humor will be a ray of sunshine if our plane death-spirals into the frozen tundra

Memo: do not drink coffee. It makes me uselessly nervy, even trembly, and engenders baseless optimism about my powers of creation.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

What is it like?

Hopeful kept close to him,

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

The general education of the population also gave cause for optimism. In 1900, Germans counted among the most literate people in the world, with literacy rates in the range, of those found in the United States today.