Quotes about Optimism

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Celebrate creativity and confidence in the face of adversity.

All shadows of insecurity dissolve in the warm glow of persistence.

Hope is] the unswerving belief that better days are ahead, probably in this world and most certainly in the next.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

Consider anything, only don't cry!

Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

Washington Irving once introduced Charles Dickens at a dinner given in the latter's honor. In the middle of his speech Irving hesitated, became embarrassed, and sat down awkwardly. Turning to a friend beside him he remarked, There, I told you I would fail, and I did. If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this.

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

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.