Quotes about Optimism
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
— Karl Barth
Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.
— Dale Carnegie
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Hope is patience with the lamp lit
— Tertullian
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful and all things are possible.
— Thomas a Kempis
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.
— Joyce Meyer
There's no excuse to give up the hand you're dealt. You've just got to keep fighting and make something positive out of it.
— Mike Evans
It must be kept in mind, however, that optimism is not anything to be commanded or ordered. One cannot even force oneself to be optimistic indiscriminately, against all odds, against all hope. And what is true for hope is also true for the other two components of the triad inasmuch as faith and love cannot be commanded or ordered either.
— Viktor E. Frankl