Quotes About Optimism

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and too prudent.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!

Be of good heart.

One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

Well, being sorry and giving up doesn't help us on; the only thing to do is to push forward.

Acabo de ler O ano terrível de Victor Hugo. Nele há esperança, mas... esta esperança está nas estrelas. Acho isto verdadeiro e bem dito e belo, aliás acredito nisto de bom grado.

I know there are persons who think I ought to resign myself, and that it is against the rules not to consider myself beaten; but if they say of my proposal this summer, "If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night," then you know the verse, He lost his feather in a fight But knew they'd grow again all right, Far finer than before

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because your tears won't let you see the stars.

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

There is but one safety to the vanquished—to hope not safety.

They succeed, because they think they can.

Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can)

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

every generation of people thinks they are growing up into a harder time. She thinks maybe it makes them feel better about the struggle they have leaving their childhood behind.