Quotes about Optimism

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

Come what may and love it.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I believe that better times are coming.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...

It's always good to be underestimated.

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.