Optimism Quotes - Page 7

And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever.

Leo Tolstoy

A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm

Sonya Watson

Pessimism never won any battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Wallace Stegner

...if you live feeling likeYour glass is half empty, well,It may as well be empty all the way.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

Richard Matheson

Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the corner......

Norah Lofts

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

Terry Eagleton

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.

Tiffany Reisz

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

Voltaire

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

Tamar Myers

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Rick Steves

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

C.S. Lewis

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

Stephen Colbert

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

John Wyndham

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Alain de Botton

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Louis D. Brandeis

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Idries Shah

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

Gennifer Choldenko

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

Dorothy Parker

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Eoin Colfer

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

Robert Jordan

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

Colin Powell

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

Jim Butcher

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

Danny Wallace

The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

Orson F. Whitney

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo

What day is it?"It's today," squeaked Piglet.My favorite day," said Pooh.

A.A. Milne

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

Eugene O'Neill

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Dalai Lama XIV

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Helen Keller

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Stephen King

Things are always better in the morning.

Harper Lee

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Virginia Woolf

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Voltaire

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Roberto Bolaño

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Henry Rollins

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Lucille Ball

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

Jeffrey R. Holland

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Voltaire

But hey, what's life without a little adversity?"That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

Alexandra Bracken

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!

Oprah Winfrey

Joy, not sorrow.Laughter, not tears.Life, not death.Love, not blame.

Lisa Schroeder

Life's true gift is the capacity to enjoy enjoyment.

Star Trek The Next Generation

But there is a way of despising the dandelion which is not that of the dreary pessimist, but of the more offensive optimist. It can be done in various ways; one of which is saying, "You can get much better dandelions at Selfridge's," or "You can get much cheaper dandelions at Woolworth's." Another way is to observe with a casual drawl, "Of course nobody but Gamboli in Vienna really understands dandelions," or saying that nobody would put up with the old-fashioned dandelion since the super-dandelion has been grown in the Frankfurt Palm Garden; or merely sneering at the stinginess of providing dandelions, when all the best hostesses give you an orchid for your buttonhole and a bouquet of rare exotics to take away with you. These are all methods of undervaluing the thing by comparison; for it is not familiarity but comparison that breeds contempt. And all such captious comparisons are ultimately based on the strange and staggering heresy that a human being has a right to dandelions; that in some extraordinary fashion we can demand the very pick of all the dandelions in the garden of Paradise; that we owe no thanks for them at all and need feel no wonder at them at all; and above all no wonder at being thought worthy to receive them. Instead of saying, like the old religious poet, "What is man that Thou carest for him, or the son of man that Thou regardest him?" we are to say like the discontented cabman, "What's this?" or like the bad-tempered Major in the club, "Is this a chop fit for a gentleman?" Now I not only dislike this attitude quite as much as the Swinburnian pessimistic attitude, but I think it comes to very much the same thing; to the actual loss of appetite for the chop or the dish of dandelion-tea. And the name of it is Presumption and the name of its twin brother is Despair. This is the principle I was maintaining when I seemed an optimist to Mr. Max Beerbohm; and this is the principle I am still maintaining when I should undoubtedly seem a pessimist to Mr. Gordon Selfridge. The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

G.K. Chesterton

Make enthusiasm a way of life.Make optimism a way of success.Make gratitude a way of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

Susan Cooper

That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man... It's not a thing you can forget. I don't guess it's a thing you ought to forget. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem mighty cruel and unfair, but that's how life is part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad.

Fred Gipson

We are gods in the chrysalis.

Dale Carnegie

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

Sarah Kay

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

Cathy Burnham Martin

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

James A. Owen

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

Randy Pausch

Don't live in a world of 'I never should have'. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at the stars.

Mary Alice Kruesi

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