Optimism Quotes
Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.
Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.
I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health.
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.
No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests.
Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.
Optimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.
You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
