Optimism is true moral courage.
Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.
I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.
I think optimism is a moral imperative.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It was hard not to be full of hope
