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.

If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

It's important you think positively not negatively. Think about your loved ones and all the people who are behind you.