Quotes on Optimism

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Things are always better in the morning.

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

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

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...