Quotes about Optimism
The future is a bright as the promises of God.
- Adoniram Judson
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
- Anne Frank
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
- Pope John Paul II
You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.
- Jack Canfield
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
- John Ortberg
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson