Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Victor Hugo, Les Misérables #Apothegm #Optimism
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough. Richard M. DeVos Hope #Optimism #Positive #Smile
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success. Jane McGonigal Hope #Belief #Hope #Optimism
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston S. Churchill #Opportunity #Optimism #Pessimism
So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in. Sonia Sotomayor Hope #Challenges #Happy #Optimism
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. Studs Terkel Hope #Head #Optimism #Sunny
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Hope #Enemy #Future #Optimism
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex Life #Activism #Life #Optimism
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel Hope #Conviction #Optimism
My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969. Rick Perlstein Hope #Justice #Optimism #Politics
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan Inspiration #Inspirational #Optimism #Perception