Optimism Quotes - Page 10

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Faith and optimism are contagious.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.

There’s always some level of optimism in every single song.

Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side.

Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.