Quotes about Optimism

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I believe that better times are coming.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...

It's always good to be underestimated.

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Success is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.