Alain de Botton Quotes

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it.

If you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Never give up.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.

Hope is a talent like any other.

I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

You cannot survive in our part of the world unless you have a certain amount of optimism.

History was not written by men who predicted failure…

Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again.

We're at our best when we put hope in front of fear.

In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.