Optimism Quotes - Page 4

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.

Philip A. Fisher

Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Learn how to love a broke man to marry a good man.

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Albert Schweitzer

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s'enterre - Dans l'optimisme des morts.)

Charles de Leusse

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.

Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Christina Greer

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

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.

Ricky Mathieson

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.

Ricky Mathieson

You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.

Ricky Mathieson

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?

Janet Turpin Myers

Don't bring me the stars from the sky,I'm planting sunshine in my backyard.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Madeleine L'Engle

At first, one only recognizes particular instances to be worth of critique; critique appears synonymous with rejection, implying deficiency in the object. Over time, one discovers that everything warrants critique. This can produce cynicism: nothing is above reproach, nothing is pure, therefore nothing has value. But followed through to its logical conclusion, this insight inspires a profound optimism: if everything can be critiqued, then no matter how bleak things are, there is always a way to improve them. Those who comprehend this can pass beyond the binary of approval and disapproval to identify the conflicting currents within any subject of inquiry. There are sides to take inside every position, as well as between them.

I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.

The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

G.K. Chesterton

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.

Eleanor H. Porter

Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will...

I was young enough to be an optimist.

Cynicism is a disease. Optimism is the cure.

God is very good to those who trust in Him, and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow. Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You gotta be optimistic to be single. Stupid! You have to be stupid. That's what optimistic means, you know. It means stupid. An optimist is somebody that goes, 'Hey, maybe something nice will happen!' Why the fuck would anything nice ever happen? What are you, stupid?

Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an optimistic outlook.

Auliq-Ice

You are born to win. But to become that true winner, you must make living a winning life your priority.

Jones Kofi Apawu

It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.

Idowu Koyenikan

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

Jennifer Senior

Eventually, I headed to the bathroom, and I mention this only because I saw in that bathroom the most quintessentially American artifact I have ever encountered: a bright blue rubber mat resting in the bottom of the urinal emblazoned with the following legend:EpplyWorld's Cleanest AirportOmaha, NEGod bless our relentless idiotic optimism.

One physician may gravely exaggerate an illness and give up hope altogether. Another may ignorantly declare that there is no illness and that no treatment is necessary, thus deceiving the patient with false consolation. You may call the first one pessimistic and the second one optimistic. Both are equally dangerous.

Rise from those dumps of depression!Bury those personal regrets deep inside! Focus on self-healing, self-loveOnly trust can keep you alive.Miniscule moments of hope awning aroundFloating like bubbles but burst without a soundDuress of living with mixed thoughtsFlying on the wings of optimism I thrive!

We’re programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It’s kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door.

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this.

optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

W Clement Stone

The way to get started is to take the first step with dream-powered optimism.

Debasish Mridha

Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.

Debasish Mridha

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.

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?

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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.

James Randall Robison

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

John Maynard Keynes

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

In the immediate aftermath of the great Chicago fire, a business proprietor erected a shack in front of his burned-out business. On a sign, he placed his name and the tagline that everything was gone but wife, children, and energy.

What has defined our faith since the beginning is open-ended gladness.

The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

John Taliaferro

Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next.

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

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.

The sun will set and the sun will rise, and it will shine upon us tomorrow in our grief and our gratitude, and we will continue to live with purpose, memory, passion, and love.

Brent Schlender

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