Quotes About Optimism

the essential goodness of people, it's failing to see it.

When you see the worst you appreciate the best.

All shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of thing shall be well. It was a quote from one of Gamache's favorite writers, the Christian mystic Julian of Norwich.

Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed that light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

The blindness you mention isn't believing in the essential goodness of people, it's failing to see it.

People were capable of believing almost anything. And hope was even more sweeping and powerful.

Ça va bien aller.

That's the way to live, Chloe. Savor the good times, stay strong through the bad ones.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even though it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

happy endings start with new beginnings.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ?— ?Winston Churchill

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.

I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future