Optimist Quotes - Page 3

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.

Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.

Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams.

When you have an optimistic attitude and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.

Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.