Optimism Quotes

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

Social Media begins with a story - your story.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.

Optimism can be relearnt.

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

I think optimism is a moral imperative.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong, "I've got the world ahead of me. I'm gonna be a go-getter.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

Optimism is evidence-based.

I am by nature a worried optimist.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

Optimism is the staunchest worshipper of life.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

I think that the message I have of optimism and hope about Britain's bright future outside the European Union is shared by many Conservative members and voters - indeed by a majority of the country.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.

Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.

I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.