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Quotes about Optimism

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
— John F. Kennedy
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
— John Keats
Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.
— John Mayer
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles
— Audrey Hepburn
In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!
— Ariel Sharon
When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.
— Britney Spears
That was a wrong thing for you to say, that you would have had nothing to try for. If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for. Some can be happy. I seemed to see that more clearly than ever, when I was the most wretched. I can hardly think how I could have borne the trouble, if that feeling had not come to me to make strength.
— George Eliot
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
— Francis de Sales
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett