Quotes: 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.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I’d be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove… instead of twenty.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

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.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them – and for my daughters, too.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.