W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

You are not just about death and disease.

My philosophy is that while there's life, there's hope. It's as simple as that.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards... I believe our best days are yet to come.

Trust in tomorrow...Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow. —Alex Morales to Miranda Evans

Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.