Optimism Quotes
Happiness and success require the highest possible optimism, with minimal expectations. Optimize without limits, and expect anything in particular.
One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.
The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.
I'm alive now, but I don't know if I will be tomorrow. The state of being alive is not guaranteed, but should I let that stop me from living?
If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?
Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it.
Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.
The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.
Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next.
There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.
To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.
The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.
Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward
To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.
Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an optimistic outlook.
You are born to win. But to become that true winner, you must make living a winning life your priority.
It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.
We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong
Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.
Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.
Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s'enterre - Dans l'optimisme des morts.)
We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.
Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.
Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.
The foot feels the foot when it's touched by the ground, like the heart feels the heart when it's no longer bound.
You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.
I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.
Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?
I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.
The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.
Why, it would be such fun, ' he chuckled, 'to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn't shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.
There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.
Horas non numero nisi serenas, ' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones,
Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.
