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Quotes About Optimism

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
~ Mark Twain
Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
~ Mark Twain
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
~ Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
~ Mark Twain
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
~ Mark Twain
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
~ Kevin Mitnick
If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.
~ H. L. Hunt
It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
~ Golda Meir
Sunshine is my quest.
~ Winston Churchill
Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
~ Unknown
It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.
~ Bob Hope
They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
~ Casey Stengel
You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.
~ Bret McKenzie
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
~ Lynda Barry
I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.
~ Unknown
I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.
~ Bill Cosby
Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
~ Stevie Wonder
I had a tumor. But it was great.
~ David Rakoff
We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
I do think laughter is the most important thing, and being able to see the funny side of nearly anything is a crucial, crucial thing.
~ Jeremy Vine
I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.
~ Drew Barrymore
Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay
~ Harlan Coben
I'm here to shine a bright light. I'm not here to be a guy of death. I just like 'KD' better.
~ Kevin Durant