Optimism Quotes - Page 5

To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.

What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

At the end of the line, lies a new beginning.

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

Pearl S. Buck

Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.

Dan Harris

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.

Gregor Collins

Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward

Benny Bellamacina

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

Stephen L. Carter

Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival.

Jonathan Heatt

Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn’t set policy....

James S.A. Corey

Yes, it will all end one day; but today is worth living.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.

Amy Neftzger

If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future

David Mas Masumoto

In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.

Abel Aganbegyan

I always see the crack in the glass before I see the window.

Richard Wentworth

When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!

Benny Bellamacina

There were bad times before, and you are still here... Living, breathing, feeling the wind on your skin. Let everything go and feel it!

Adam Scythe

It is okay to lobby for success. But it best to succeed like a royalty. Success from a position of self-respect and optimism beats success from a position of fear and insecurity anyday, anytime. The journey is also as important as the destination.

Asuni LadyZeal

Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.

Jim Bouton

The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.

James S.A. Corey

I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments.

Harold Bloom

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

H.W. Brands

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

Rick Perlstein

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

John Howard Griffin

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.

Harold Holzer

The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.

Ransom Riggs

Sometimes what we don't wish for is more powerful than what we do.

Tis the Season

He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs.

Trollope Anthony 1815-1882

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

It's strange but as I grow older, I find myself developing more optimism. I keep inching toward the point where I believe that it's more difficult to have hope than it is to embrace cynicism. In the deep dark end, there's no point unless we have at least a modicum of hope. We trawl our way through the darkness hoping to find a pinpoint of light. But isn't it remarkable that the cynics of this world—the politicians, the corporations, the squinty-eyed critics—seem to think that they have a claim on intelligence? They seem to think that it's cooler, more intellectually engaging, to be miserable, that there's some sort of moral heft in cynicism. But I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who are prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.

Colum McCann

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

John Gardner

You will never forget what has happened to you. You cannot. And I will never replace your mother. I cannot. But you must believe that this is a beautiful world. People are basically kind and loving. You are going to live a wonderful life. You must take these memories and bury them deep in a corner of your soul. Don't live them on your skin. Tomorrow you will wake up for the first time in your new home, here with us. You will not wake up a tortured little girl. You will wake up a citizen of the world, deserving of a happy and meaningful life.

Diana Nyad

Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and originates in needs and necessities inseparable from life itself, as serving no purpose at all and the result of mere chance. Each separate misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be something exceptional; but misfortune in general is the rule.I know of no greater absurdity than that propounded by most systems of philosophy in declaring evil to be negative in its character. Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Optimism is a belief and I adapt belief as a way of life.

Fe-en-Dios

We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view.

Robert Louis Stevenson

At a certain point, unabashed optimism becomes delusional insanity.

Matt Abrams

There is a very real danger present when we suppress our feelings to act on inspiration in exchange for the “safety” of the status quo. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to live a more fulfilling and purpose driven life. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. We risk sacrificing the beautiful blessing of finding a greater sense of meaning in our own lives.In short, we run the very real risk living a life of regret.

Richie Norton

We each appear only one time in history. Whatever occurs in our life will never occur again. Our life is significant and worthy of living if we are brave, love fearlessly, and remain optimistic regardless of our earthly hardships.

Kilroy J. Oldster

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser―in case you thought optimism was dead.

Robert Brault

People can make it hard for you, they can discourage and take the heart out of you, but in the end the only person who can kill your dream is you. Don't ever give up.

Sarah Morgan

The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimism had led to an ethos of fear, and the other's pessimism had led to a noisy, fractious disdain for Everything-That-Was. One shrank, the other flailed. One toed the line, the other crossed it out. Much of the time they were at loggerheads, and because Willy found it so easy to shock his mother, he rarely wasted an opportunity to provoke an argument. If only she'd the wit to back off a little, he probably wouldn't have been so insistent about making his points. Her antagonism inspired him, pushed him into ever more extreme positions, and by the time he was ready to leave the house and go off to college, he had indelibly cast himself in his chosen role: as malcontent, as rebel, as outlaw poet prowling the gutters of a ruined world.

Paul Auster

Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

Michael Ende

The definition of the future is today

ABC

Horrle was nodding gravely, humoring him, probably thinking that out of all these two hundred fun-loving people it was just his luck to have run into a doom merchant. McIntyre had committed the sin of pessimism, of course, forgetting, as a Brit, that out here optimism was more than a state of mind; optimism was a philosophy.

Christopher Hudson

From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be.

Elie Wiesel

Never go tapping into the lives of others like you know them and their story! Their story is not yours, tell yours, for that is all you know.

Auliq-Ice

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

Viet Thanh Nguyen

...I do not believe that the law of God permits a better man to be harmed by a worse. No doubt my accuser might put me to death or have me banished or deprived of civic rights; but even if he thinks, as he probably does (and others to, I dare say), that these are great calamities, I do not think so... For let me tell you, gentlemen, that to be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death whether it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to a man; but people dread it as though they were certain that it is the greatest evil; and this ignorance, which thinks that it knows what it does not, must surely be ignorance most culpable. This, I take it, gentlemen, is the degree, and this is the nature of my advantage over the rest of mankind; and if I were to claim to be wiser than my neighbour in any respect, it would be in this: that not possessing any real knowledge of what comes after death, I am also conscious that I do not possess it. But I do know that to do wrong and to disobey my superior, whether God or man, is wicked and dishonourable; and so I shall never feel more fear or aversion for something which, for all I know, may really be a blessing, than for those evils which I know to be evils.

Socrates

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

Michael Lewis

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

Michael Lewis

We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can live our life with the taint of aftermath or look forward to embracing each beguiling day with renewed energy and enthusiasm.

Kilroy J. Oldster

So many powerful, inspirational, insightful, hopeful and connected speeches today. It's been a joy to feel the energy of the women's marches all over the country and world. Feeling optimistic and energized.

Scott Stabile

Nothing wrong with believing good things will happen.And if it doesn't, there's always whiskey.

P.T. Patrick

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear

Homer

Until we’re pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything’s coming up roses — for me and for you.

Gina Barreca

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

C. JoyBell C.

Why say no when you could say yes!

The Paper Doll

She would put her “naïve American optimism” toward making herself indispensable to him, and she’d win him. Because naïve American optimism beat out English cynicism any day.

Sabrina Jeffries

It is our non negotiable responsibility to always stay positive, no matter what! The only thing that can make you negative is the thing you allow to make you negative! Think well and stay positive!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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