Quotes about Optimism

One German officer lived in the house opposite ours. He had a room with the Kahn family. They said he was a charming man - calm, likable, polite, and sympathetic. Three days after he moved in he brought Madame Kahn a box of chocolates. The optimists rejoiced.

The main theme remains constant: man owes it to himself to reject despair; better to rely on miracles than opt for resignation. By changing himself, man can change the world.

From Jeff Greenfield: I once asked Elie Wiesel Are you an optimist or a pessimist? An optimist, he said. I have to be.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Oh yet we trust that somehow goodWill be the final goal of ill.

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

There is a part of me that's oblivious. People always ask me, 'What obstacles have you faced?' and I always think, 'What are you talking about?' Whether or not there were obstacles, I never saw obstacles. It's never occurred to me that I wasn't good enough for something.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.