Quotes About Optimism

My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

Things are looking better already. If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

Your brakes have gone out. May as well pretend to enjoy the ride.

you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception.

It's hard. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's intoxicatingly liberating.

at the end of the day, people who are positive and optimistic are simply more attractive than people who are negative and pessimistic.

One hundred percent of all human beings need hope to get by. And if any statistic takes that away from you, then it's not worth knowing. And

Reality is something you rise above.

There is more good than bad. Life and love win if you let them. If you believe in them.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today.

False hope is better than no hope at all.

All's well so long-as you don't get shot in the hind end with a twenty gauge.

Luck is merely a product of the happily delusional mind.

Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.)

The happiest people are the people with the best attitudes, not the best lives.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and it is therefore in our interest that as little should happen as possible