Quotes About Optimism

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

A banner with the strange device,Excelsior!

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Hank, you need to be positive about things. Why don't you try looking at your cup as half full?" "Dad, I'm looking in my cup, and at this moment, I can't see any liquid whatsoever.

They talked about peace, but did not believe in its possibility.

as long as there is life, there is still happiness

Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes completely good and kind, and disbelieves in the very possibility of evil, unhappiness, and sorrow.

He had great faith in his own fortune. When planning anything he always felt in advance firmly convinced of success and fate smiled to him.

You see a thing may be looked at tragically and turned to a torment, or looked at quite simply, and even gaily. Perhaps you are inclined to take things too tragically.

one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!

He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had borne it because through the darkness flickered a tiny star of hope. Once when he was alive he thought that perhaps a better lot might still be in store for him. But now that he had advanced toward the end, hope, too, was dead.

Como se através de uma janela aberta num quarto abafado soprasse de repente um ar fresco do campo, assim também soprou, no abatido estado-maior de Kutúzov, a mocidade, a energia e a convicção da vitória que vinham daquela juventude radiosa que chegara a galope.

Those who can raise their thoughts to heaven will always have clear days, because the sun always shines above the clouds.

There is never any 'impossible' with him. That's a thing I hate! Everything is possible.

The second way out is epicureanism. It consists, while knowing the hopelessness of life, in making use meanwhile of the advantages one has, disregarding the dragon and the mice, and licking the honey in the best way, especially if there is much of it within reach.

We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us. That I say to you," he

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.