The consistent optimism of our liberal culture has prevented modern democratic societies both from gauging the perils of freedom accurately and from appreciating democracy fully as the only alternative to injustice and oppression. When this optimism is not qualified to accord with the real and complex facts of human nature and history, there is always a danger that sentimentality will give way to despair and that a too consistent optimism will alternate with a too consistent pessimism.

I have always felt like I am a positive player.

Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.

I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

Perpetual optimism is a force leveler

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand. A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

It is better – it shall be better with me because I have known you.

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.