Quotes about Optimism

Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.

Plan for the very worst, then pray for the very best. Savor the days when the sun shines, but have your raincoat and boots ready for the storms that will always blow in from the bay.

To find purpose in our problems, to see past the ugliness, rather than step back, we should get closer. Only then will we notice the beauty.

I am neither spurred on by excessive optimism nor in love with high ideals, but am merely concerned with the fate of the individual human being - that infinitesimal unit on whom a world depends, and in whom, if we read the meaning of the Christian message aright, even God seeks his goal.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

I exhort you to be of good cheer.