Optimism Quotes - Page 5

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161)

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

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

Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.

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.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

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.

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.