Quotes about Optimism

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Danny Bautista

I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.

Michael Strahan

You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.

Jean Harlow

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

Sai Baba

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

Milo Yiannopoulos

I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.

Robert Kennedy

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

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Henri Frederic Amiel

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

William Faulkner

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail...

He also repeated this quotation in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 1951.

Stephen Colbert

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

Jack London

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Joan Baez

Action is the antidote to despair.

Douglas MacArthur

Youth is not a period of time. It is a state of mind, a result of the will, a quality of the imagination, a victory of courage over timidity, and the taste of adventure over the love of comfort. A man doesn't grow old because he's lived a certain number of years, he grows old because he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skins, but deserting his ideals wrinkles his soul. Preoccupation, fears, doubts, and despair are dust before death. You will remain young as long as you are open to what is beautiful, good, great and receptive to the messages of other men and women and nature and of God. If one day you should become bitter, pessimistic, and gnawed by despair, may God have mercy on your old man's soul.

Stephen Hawking

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

A. A. Milne

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Oswald Spengler

Optimism is cowardice.

Elon Musk

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

Elon Musk

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

John Steinbeck

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

There are some who question the authenticity of this Steinbeck quotation on the grounds that all the references to it seem to be secondary sources. However, we lean toward its authenticity.

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what’s next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

John Barrymore

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Winston Churchill

Never give up! Never, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never!!

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

Maya Angelou

Live as though life was created for you.

Optimism Quotes