Optimism Quotes - Page 4

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Do you hold fond memories in your heart which you would like to experience again? Have you made mistakes which you wish you could go back and correct? Has life turned out differently than you ever planned for or expected? The wonderful thing about Second Chances is that you get to take what was once created or has already happened and REDO it to make it better.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Focus on your character, not your reputation.Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

I got it! I got it!” Heeb declared triumphantly. Evan stopped in the middle of his kitchenette to hear Heeb’s idea. “Sex in the Title.”“Yeah, that’s what you’ve been saying I need.”“No, that’s the title: ‘Sex in the Title.’”“You want me to call my novel ‘Sex in the Title?’”“Yeah. Isn’t it great?

Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

Make every misadventure an adventure.

If I were to complain about complainers. Am I a culprit comparable conveyor? Let go of the anger. It’s crimping my colossal contentment.

It was a burden on all her muscles. A hollow deeper than her bones. She braced herself though, she knew why Atlas stood so tall.

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Love means nothing in tennis,But it's everything in life

But hey, what's life without a little adversity?"That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

At a certain point, unabashed optimism becomes delusional insanity.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

We try to show that the well-ordered society of justice as fairness is indeed possible according to our nature and those requirements. This endeavor belongs to political philosophy as reconciliation; for seeing that the conditions of a social world at least allow for that possibility affects our view of the world itself and our attitude toward it. No longer need it seem hopelessly hostile, a world in which the will to dominate and oppressive cruelties, abetted by prejudice and folly, must inevitably prevail. None of these may ease our loss, situated as we may be in a corrupt society. But we may reflect that the world is not in itself inhospitable to political justice and its good. Our social world might have been different and there is hope for those at another time and place

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

You have the power within your reach to create what you desire.

Sometimes just the affirmation that a situation sucks can turn a mood around and inspire strength and optimism.

Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.Getting to the top is the manna of life.AL/fd

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.

Don’t set your own goals by what other people make important.

I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.

We each appear only one time in history. Whatever occurs in our life will never occur again. Our life is significant and worthy of living if we are brave, love fearlessly, and remain optimistic regardless of our earthly hardships.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

To build up your speed and create momentum, do you need to be pushed or pulled? Successfully shifting gears requires synchronization, coordination, and a sense of speed, whether fast or slow. Sometimes it is simply a matter of shaking up your routine to get things rolling in the right direction.

It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely similar nonsense for the aggravation of the next generation. "Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. Take up the literature of 1835, and you will find the poets and novelists asking for the same impossible gift as did the German Minnesingers long before them and the old Norse Saga writers long before that. And for the same thing sighed the early prophets and the philosophers of ancient Greece. From all accounts, the world has been getting worse and worse ever since it was created. All I can say is that it must have been a remarkably delightful place when it was first opened to the public, for it is very pleasant even now if you only keep as much as possible in the sunshine and take the rain good-temperedly.

Step ahead immediately and do what you have to do before it's too late.

Edwin is prepared to believe that a glass exists. And further, that this glass holds liquid.

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me to undiscovered worlds of azure and metamorphosis. The air shimmered with every breath, the water tightened with every sound.

Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of accomplishing more than you know. You have more potential than you think, but you will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself and pushing beyond your own self imposed limits.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.

Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Anyone who claims good or evil isn't one or either, they're just a liar... the worst kind of liar... the liar that doesn't even know they're lying. We're human. We're good during the day and evil at night, half the time those roles are reversed, that's what it's all about.

We continuously make promises and create agreements with ourselves and others. Some of these agreements are mutually beneficial. However, when you realize that things you agreed to in the past are no longer helpful, possible, or relevant, renegotiate. Be invested enough in your situations or relationships for renegotiation to take place.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Reconnect to what makes you happy and brings you Joy. If there is something that used to make you happy which you have stopped doing, do it again. Seek to find deeper meaning and significance rather than living on the surface.

Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.

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 falls apart.

A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.

God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ‘why nots

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

Adventures kept hidden, words kept silent. You became my greatest secret. And when you left, no one knew the source of the pain I felt. No one knew you existed, except my writhing heart.

Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life.

If in day to day life you lead a good life, honestly, with love, compassion, and less selfishness, then automatically you will find peace.

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

If you want to live your life to the fullest you must start believing in yourself today.

Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.

Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you’re hitting a wall because you simply don’t understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.