Quotes about Optimism
To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence
— Mark Twain
He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.
— Mark Twain
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only when it is dark enough can we see the stars.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dark yesterday can be transformed into bright tomorrow.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Holmes smiled, and clapped Lestrade upon the shoulder. "Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Sufficient for to-morrow is the evil thereof; but I hope before the day is past to have the upper hand at last.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
He who is without hope is also without fear. - On Psychology
— Arthur Schopenhauer