Quotes About Optimism

When you can find no reason to celebrate, you find one anyway. Every soul needs laughter and fun, no matter how awful the reality of the present.

There is love and there is sorrow, but the gain outweighs the loss, if you will make it so.

L'important, c'est de ne jamais désespérer.

Don't look back only forward! Infinite energy infinite enthusiasm infinite daring and infinite patience then alone can great deeds be accomplished

[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

[Optimism] is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?

In this best of all possible worlds… everything is for the best.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

O what fine times, this age of iron!

All is for the best in the best of all possible ways.

Would you be always young? Then be an Anarchist, and live with the faith of hope, though you be old.

No matter: Man always hopes; Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better. What

Whoever the searchlights catch, Whatever the loudspeakers blare, We are not to despair.

Don't worry about your heart. It will last as long as you live.

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

God is always a good God; right is right; and with every disadvantage there is a greater advantage, if one seeks and finds it.

After a storm there is fair weather, after sorrow there is joy.

If thou must chooseBetween the chances, choose the odd;Read the New Yorker; trust in God;And take short views.

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.