Quotes about Optimism
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
— George Bernard Shaw
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.
— George Eliot
Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.
— Isabel Allende
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
— Ellen Glasgow
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
— Duke Ellington
I exhort you to be of good cheer.
— Anonymous
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
— Euripides
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.
— James Freeman Clarke
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
— Anonymous
Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
— Anonymous
Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.
— Anonymous