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I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Brontë1816–185515 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285
- Faith
Oh never star
Was lost here but it rose afar.
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Waring, ii.
Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning1812–1889“A Death in the Desert”, Dramatis Personae (1864), line 586
- Change
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
GBGeorge Washington Burnap1802–1859Often credited to Joseph Addison
- Happiness
- Love
It’s coming yet, for a’ that,
That man to man, the warld o’er,
Shall brothers be for a’ that.
Robert Burns1759–1796A Man’s a Man for A’ That (1795)In context
- Friendship
Farewell!
For in that word, that fatal word,⁠—howe’er
We promise, hope, believe,⁠—there breathes despair.
Lord Byron1788–1824The Corsair (1814), Canto I, stanza 15.
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
Lord Byron1788–1824The Bride of Abydos (1813), Canto II, stanza 20.
We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Message on the Voyager Golden Record (June 1977)
We shall rest. We shall hear the angels. We shall see heaven shining like a jewel. We shall see all evil and all our pain sink away in the great compassion that shall enfold the world. Our life will be as peaceful and tender and sweet as a caress. I have faith; I have faith.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act IV, spoken by SoniaIn context
- Faith
- Life & Death
There is happiness, there it comes; it comes nearer and nearer; I hear its steps already. And if we do not see it we shall not know it, but what does that matter? Others will see it!
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Two, spoken by TrofimovIn context
- Happiness
The human race progresses, perfecting its powers. Everything that is unattainable now will some day be near at hand and comprehensible, but we must work, we must help with all our strength those who seek to know what fate will bring.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Two, spoken by TrofimovIn context
- Work
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “Introduction”
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “Introduction”
For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195
We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech at Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, Scotland (“Unemployment”), October 10, 1908, in Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909), Churchill, Echo Library (2007), p. 87