12 sentences with “optimism”

My remaining reserves of courage and optimism had been exhausted.

If you change your mind (from pessimism to optimism), you can transform your life.

Most people are a mixture of optimism and pessimism, but lean in one direction or the other.

The late 1960s were a wonderful time to be alive and young; it was an era of new beginnings and optimism.

A growing body of research is showing that optimism can help us be happier, healthier, and more successful.

His great personal gift is his ability to downplay his disability and to always look at life with joy and optimism.

Dr. Epstein summoned all his optimism. Among his weapons, this was the most reliable: his innate drive to preserve life.

I wanted to strike a balance between optimism and realism, which is difficult to do in front of 20 people gathered around a boardroom table.

The "thirty glorious years" of the post-war economic boom ended in the early 1970s, and the optimism of the youth movement tended to wane with it.

Here is a selection of those photos, which vividly tell a story of optimism and patriotic fervour, as well as the new pride in being South African.

The post-war era began in the shadow of war and the fascist nightmare that preceded it; the British writer George Orwell noted that "since about 1930, the world has given no cause for optimism. There is nothing in sight but a welter of lies, cruelty, hatred and ignorance".

Jane is a devout Anglican and has strong religious convictions. "If I hadn't had faith in God," she has said, "I wouldn't have been able to marry Stephen. I wouldn't have had the optimism I needed to overcome adversity. He is going into really important territory for people who think.