quotations about optimism
I'm just saying when tragedy strikes, we have to look on the bright side. You know? Like how even used Mercedes still have leather seats.
CORDELIA
"Teacher's Pet", Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Some murmur, when their sky is clear
And wholly bright to view,
If one small speck of dark appear
In their great heaven of blue:
And some with thankful love are filled,
If but one streak of light,
One ray of God's good mercy gild
The darkness of their light.
RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH
"Some Murmur"
Optimism is the religion of the rotund: the creed of the corpulent. It forms no part of the tenets of those who wear "a lean and hungry look"--the great attentuated. It is the matin song of the merry mendicant friar, and the inevitable consequence of a good digestive apparatus.
MEREDITH F. TITTERINGTON
"Is Optimism Irrational?", The Plebs Magazine, February 1910
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
DAVID G. MYERS
Exploring Psychology
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
NELSON MANDELA
Long Walk to Freedom