Quotes About Optimism

Optimists were optimistic, pessimists pessimistic, and the in-betweens listened to the optimists one day and to the pessimists the next.

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.

We white folks cling to such an abiding sense of entitlement that when things go amiss, we cannot let go of this torturously sunny, idiotically cheerful doppelgänger of a world that we deserve in which life is swell.

Happiness doesn't just happen. I'm convinced that for the most part, those who focus their minds on it, obtain it.

For T.J., it's simply an article of faith that happiness will be the natural by-product of success.

She's not in a rush. Not yet. She'll just keep swiping left, keep looking nice when she goes out, keep accepting invitations to social events, keep positive, keep slim, keep herself together, keep going.

Ellie's mum always said that May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.

I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

Sometimes when you're making the best of a situation, it turns out far better than you could have hoped for.

Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.

I do not propose to solve the Israeli-Palestine conflict. But I do think the world would be a vastly safer place - and maybe a happier one, too - if more of us learned to see beyond our biases, our preferences, and became optimists capable of letting go.

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

We in Colombia always hope for Venezuela to prosper.

For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.

Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

His thought is both optimistic and anguished. It is anguished because he sees that we are sentenced by our freedom, imprisoned by it (since it makes us afraid); optimistic because Sartre believed that we are truly free and can indeed make free choices.

Optimisme wil beslist niet zeggen dat wordt verkondigd hoe gelukkig de mens is of zou kunnen zijn, maar eenvoudig dat zijn lijden niet voor niets is. Als de wereld slechts was geschapen om in haar ondergang een laatste lichtflits te zijn voor een paar blinde ogen, zelfs dan zou die ondergang nog zin hebben gehad.

Who also accuse existentialism of being too gloomy, it makes me wonder if what they are really annoyed about is not its pessimism, but rather its optimism.