Quotes about Optimism

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

Be patient. Don't give up. This life's not over yet. It will get better. One day you will enjoy the most perfect final exit.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet.

But, Eeyore," said Pooh, "was it a Joke, or an Accident? I mean--" "I didn't stop to ask, Pooh. Even at the very bottom of the river I didn't stop to say to myself, '*Is* this a Hearty Joke, or is it the Merest Accident?' I just floated to the surface, and said to myself, 'It's wet.' If you know what I mean.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.