1,853 Quotes About Optimism

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day

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 he has become our travelling companion.

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.

Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.

The shaping of how we are feeling by how we are looking at life is always in tough competition with the shaping of how we are looking at life by how we are feeling.

What is deemed a nightmare by one person another deems an adventure.

Be open about your thoughts, ideas, and desires and you will be right with your decisions.

If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what.

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