Quotes About Optimism

Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't just pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

Probably, in the unfamiliar situation, responsibility was never formally allocated to anyone by anybody, and, human nature being incurably optimistic and fundamentally hostile to assuming any work not established as its own by long tradition, each person who might have shouldered the task of organization hopefully supposed it to have been performed by one of the other.

knowledge that men deliberately refused to perceive the obvious even when such perception was to their own advantage. Still optimistic in spite of the War, I had believed that statesmen needed only to realise the mistakes of the past in order to avoid them, only

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

Hope is the last thing that dies. Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

I do not accept this.

Remember that phrase, though. "Rise above it." It's useful when things get you down.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping-stone to something better…" ~Harland "The Colonel" Sanders

You must, however, not lose your sense of humor, which is also a great item in your success. Sense of humor is the counterweight for your misfortunes which you will meet from time to time, from the smallest to the biggest ... If you take anything seriously without any sense of humor and you should happen to fail, it will be the beginning of your downfall.

Even now...she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

I put a fish ball in my mouth. My optimism covered the whole ball as if the fish had never died, had never been gutted and rolled into a humiliating shape. To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

There is always a solution to any challenging situation.

Don't Polish Balls, Polish your Attitude

Gratitude leads to a good attitude

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy, why not make up happy shit?

Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.