Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can. —Boldred

Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's all downhill from here. So I would just as soon believe, in my optimistic Midwestern American way, that we will recover and maybe even make lemonade out of the lemons that we are faced with.

I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.

When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

Necessity, which even makes cowards brave ...

History was not written by men who predicted failure…

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

He who despairs over an event is a coward. He who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

I have way more bravery than common sense, but you always assume things are going to be so difficult, and then when you're actually faced with them, you prevail. It's human nature.

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

One should be brave. It's life, there will be ups and downs. It's only when you are down, that you get the strength to get back up.

Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

You always underestimate - rather than be disappointed.

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.

And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.