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Quotes About Optimism

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
~ John Keats
I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.
~ Mumia Abu-Jamal
Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition, I can do little else in my present position.
~ Unknown
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
~ Winston Churchill
It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!
~ Gilda Radner
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.
~ Richard Jeni
Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.
~ William Empson
And yet this stagnation is a big reason why I am an optimistic skeptic. We know that in so much of what people want to predict—politics, economics, finance, business, technology, daily life—predictability exists, to some degree, in some circumstances. But there is so much else we do not know.
~ Philip Tetlock
we persevere because we believe rewards will come.
~ Philip Yancey
Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, 'Oh dear, things can't possibly get any worse.' An optimist says, 'Don't be so sad. Things can always get worse.
~ Philip Yancey
A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.
~ Philip Yancey
True hope is honest.
~ Philip Yancey
Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.
~ Philippa Gregory
We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up.
~ Philippa Gregory
I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.
~ Philippa Gregory
I would like you to have a beautiful day every day.
~ Philippa Gregory
We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onward and upward
~ Philippa Gregory
I do not prepare for defeat. To do so would be to betray myself.
~ Philippa Gregory
Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.
~ Unknown
Go gently into the day. Honor your idealism, resist cynicism. Keep your heart open to the world, try and make the world better. Don't give up.
~ Phyllis Chesler
Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.
~ Price Pritchett
Because you believed even though you did not see, you will now have the ability to see things that the others did not believe.
~ Priscilla Shirer
She raised (all) spirits towards the hope of better times
~ Unknown