Quotes about Optimism
I am a sport. And I don't have a chip on my shoulder.
- Lady Colin Campbell
Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.
- Joseph Benavidez
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
- Jurgen Moltmann
As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
- Jurgen Moltmann
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
- Aristotle
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
- Herman Melville
A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.
- Ezra Taft Benson
A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.
- Napoleon Hill
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
- Phillips Brooks
Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
- Henry David Thoreau