Quotes about Optimism

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.

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.