Quotes About Optimism

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — ... "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — ... "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." —

We're not lost," he said in a cheery tone. "We're just locationally deficient and directionally challenged at the moment.

To attribute foreseeable necessity to the catastrophe of Germany and the European Jews would be to give it a meaning that it didn't have. There is an unseemly optimism in such an assumption. In the history of mankind there is more that is spontaneous, wilful, unreasonable and senseless than our conceit allows. —GOLO MANN, GESCHICHTE UND GESCHICHTEN, P. 170

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Until then, have great expectations. Keep believing you dreams will come true. And remember, when life throws you a pit... plant a cherry tree.

When life throws you a pit, plant a cherry tree.

I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!

328An optimism which is exclusively built on evolution is always transmuted into pessimism if one ponders a little more deeply.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.

I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things can happen, if you're willing to throw common sense in the air and try .

I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

What can you do but, as Cicero says, live hopefully, die bravely?

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

I think it's just people. They always hope there may be something better.

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

I never know why Hope is accounted a virtue," Camille said. "It seems so selfserving.