Quotes about Optimism
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
— Joseph Addison
The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
— AA Milne
Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.
— AA Milne
You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet.
— AA Milne
But, Eeyore," said Pooh, "was it a Joke, or an Accident? I mean--" "I didn't stop to ask, Pooh. Even at the very bottom of the river I didn't stop to say to myself, '*Is* this a Hearty Joke, or is it the Merest Accident?' I just floated to the surface, and said to myself, 'It's wet.' If you know what I mean.
— AA Milne
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
— Abraham Lincoln
The future is a bright as the promises of God.
— Adoniram Judson
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
— Anne Frank
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
— Pope John Paul II
You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.
— Fr. Richard Rohr