Quotes about Optimism
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
- Samuel Johnson
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
- John Ortberg
The one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope.
- Max Lucado
Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?
- Lauren Bacall
I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.
- Gordon Hinckley
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
- John Wooden
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
- GK Chesterton
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
- Thomas Merton
Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.
- Wendell Berry
Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.
- Charles Swindoll
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
- Euripides
Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.
- Norman Vincent Peale