174 quotes found
“Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.”
“I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can some...”
“Instead of cursing the darkness, try to fix the lamp.”
“Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for u...”
“In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.”
“Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.”
“When things come to the worst they generally mend.”
“The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.”
“Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.”
“When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'”
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”
“Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
