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.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

There’s probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

You know, if you’re hopeful, if you’re even a little bit happy about something that might happen, it doesn’t affect the outcome. You could still give yourself a period of optimism, even if it all...

The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them...

If optimism is the highest form of courage — as I am beginning to believe it is — then these students are all heroes.

We’re living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress and change… are absolutely tremendous. Anybody who tells...

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

You’re just Little Miss Optimist, aren’t you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett

Yeah. Isn’t it great?

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an...

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens,...

Men crawl in slime and wallow in the mud;The Realist groans: “All life is mud ans slime!”Men lie and steal and shed each other’s blood;And Realism sees but blood and crime.Yet Right is just as...

When you dream with optimism and trust, it becomes a reality fast.

I am so far from being a pessimist…on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

The author, then in the final stage as a candidate for Delta Force, was asked by the unit’s foreboding colonel what he thought of the evaluation’s Stress Week. He responded that he was waiting for...

Horas non numero nisi serenas,’ ‘I count – no – hours but – unclouded ones,

The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

I was blind and heart broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, “I have wonderful news!” And I was like, “I don’t really want to hear wonderful...

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world...

I’ve dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to...

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it’s because no matter what,I am a survivor NOT a victim.

Yen buying seems to be stalling after an initial round of optimism about the Sept. 11 election receded,

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

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

Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the earlypaths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his...

Though anger seems a pessimistic response to a situation, it is at root a symptom of hope: the hope that the world can be better than it is. The man who shouts every time he...

Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you’ve got less

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are…well, just reverse it!

We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of things and custom and history, and that this will happen to us,...

No matter how many movies you watch, songs you listen to, and friends you talk to, you will never understand heartbreak. You want to disappear, crying feels like bleeding, the world is spinning. You watch...

To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.

..there are two possible endings to every story.

Change everything you can,so that nothing else is changed.

.theres much more important things..

Tiny GigglesSilly giggles of laughterI store upon a shelfI give some to otherI save some for myselfI am rich beyond all measureThough not with worldly wealthI store up these treasuresFor my heart and soulful health.

I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths...

The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ...

Der Mensch denkt nicht vergeblich. Kein Gedanke, auch nicht der wunderlichste, vergeht fruchtlos.

Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture.

If you really believed that you’d lost your soul, then when I found you in Volterra, you would have realized immediately what was happening, instead of thinking we were both dead together. But you didn’t―you...

Optimism,” said Cacambo, “What is that?” “Alas!” replied Candide, “It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Behold, we know not anything;I can but trust that good shall fallAt last — far off — at last, to all,And every winter change to spring.