Hope and Optimism

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark thing seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities, always see them for they are always there.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

They can because they think they can.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your BELIEF will help create the fact.

Have confidence that you can draw the best, not the worst, to yourself.

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

At first glance, his greatest contribution, the League of Nations, appears to have failed. Still, despite the fact that the League was crippled by his contemporaries and rejected by his own country, I have no doubt that Wilson’s work will one day emerge in more effective form.

You are the only sort of man in whose existence I see much hope for in this deplorable world.

Something was dead in each of us,

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.