Quotes about Optimism
The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.
— Jack Canfield
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
— John Ortberg
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun shines; 'T is hard to carry
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A deep man, believes that the evil eye can wither, that the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only proper foundation for optimism is the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Any other foundation is sand, not rock. It will not bear the weight of our eternity.
— Randy Alcorn
Montaigne said something that rings true for many of us: "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
— Randy Alcorn