An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques. . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism. . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.
It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it's what lets you pull on the line and reach what you're aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.
Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality
Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.
If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.
While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart. . . Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.
Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
We must cultivate our garden. Furia to God one day in seven allots; The other six to scandal she devotes. Satan, by false devotion never flammed, Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.
The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.
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.
There's too much negativity in the world. Staying positive is a better investment.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.