Optimistic Quotes And Sayings

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“Nobody knows how things will turn out, that’s why they go ahead and play the game…You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it’s hardly ever what you expect.”
– Gennifer Choldenko

“Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you’re breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.”
– David Levithan

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing–the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.”
– May Sarton

“We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.”
– James Redfield

“Expect the best, prepare for the worst.”
– Muhammed Ali Jinnah

“Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.”
– Robert Jordan

“Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.”
– Colin Powell

“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism…Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimism.”

– Jennifer Crusie

“The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.”
– Orson F. Whitney

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
– Roger Crawford

“Be happy — if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?”
– Julien Smith

“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning”
– Carl Sandburg

“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
– Charles Dickens

“Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you’ll see the world from another perspective.”
– Thea Kristine May

“I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.”

– Ana Monnar

“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”
– Mildred Barthel

“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
– Ezra Pound

“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.”
– Martin Keogh

“He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.”
– Melina Marchetta

“Pessimism never won any battle.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It isn’t all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.”
– Gene Roddenberry

“Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.”
– Rodolfo Costa

“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push – a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a ‘you can do it!’ when things are tough”
– Richard M DeVos

“Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.”
– Rodolfo Costa

“Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.”
– Hyman G. Rickover

“Everything great was accomplished by fools who dreamed.”
– Emily Dana

“You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”
– Charlaine Harris

“I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you’re very pessimistic about that society. And it’s only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.”
– Carlos Fuentes

“Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.”
– Terry Eagleton

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