Ernest Shackleton Quotes

Optimism is the true moral courage

When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that way; I've always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I've gone through.

So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

I have never been worried because when you have hope and peace, you can handle anything.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty.

Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it."

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

Hope is the mainspring of life.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.