Explore Quotes on Optimism

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

May you live all the days of your life.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you.

Today we confront the future with optimism from a founded hope for the Iraqi people - in freedom

Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.

I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.

Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise.