The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Hope is a waking dream.

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.

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.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

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.

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

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

I'm very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future.

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

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.