Quotes about Optimism

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Believe, really believe, you can move a mountain, and you can. Not many people believe that they can move mountains. So, as a result, not many people do.

He who despairs is wrong.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Thus is youth constituted; it quickly wipes its eye; it believes sorrow useless and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future before an unknown being which is itself. It is natural for it to be happy. IT seems as though it breathed hope.

What have we to fear, we who believe?

It is on December nights, with the thermometer at zero, that we most think of the sun.

Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.

I beg you friend, be happy. I have the vague sense that on your capacity to be happy hangs our only hope.

Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.