Quotes About Optimism

His bright hope had become a black cloud of despair.

I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm.

When I was young, my father used to say, 'If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.' I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn't know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

I have learned that happiness is like the sun. It must be enjoyed when it comes and while it shines.

It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Hope is the last thing ever lost.

Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.

By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.

Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice. (Cosimo Piovasco Barone di Rondò)

This prospect was in absolute contradiction to the optimism in which we children of the coast had been brought up, and I opposed the idea with shocked protests. But for me the true, living confutation of those arguments was Lll: in her I saw the perfect, definitive form, born from the conquest of the land that had emerged; she was the sum of the new boundless possibilities that had opened. How could my great-uncle try to deny the incarnate reality of Lll?

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

Of course, if I chose to be an optimist, there was always the possibility that, if our two parallels continued to infinity, the moment would come when they would touch.

Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice.

Certain of himself, confident of what he could make in his mind, going through life as if he had always a following wind.

Prevariti se u jednoj velikoj nadi nije sramota. Sama cinjenica da je takva nada mogla da postoji vredi toliko da nije suvise skupo placena jednim razocarenjem, ma kako tesko ono bilo.

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Don't ever let the negative experiences from your past deny you from the positive experiences of your future.

Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.