Quotes About Optimism

Dad, they used to tell Wayne Gretzky that he was to small, and that he would never make the NHL look at him now I replied

you have to have faith, Dad, that's what we Mayo people do, we journey in hope, true believers

Losers Focus On What They Are Going Through; Champions Focus On What They Are Going To

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill." ? Mike Royko

Challenge in hand, and all stuck together, State Fire Marshal William Cowhey observed: "There's enough brains and good will in this room to overcome this problem that has hit Chicagoland." (Results have indicated that it wasn't a very big room.)

We don't live in our fears, we live in our hopes.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

Let us, then, never look back, let us look ever forward; for forward is our sunlight, forward our salvation.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.

Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet. Well?" I asked him. He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

The stupid heart could not help but hope.

It wasn't that a white person couldn't comprehend what it was like to be in her skin, but Jay, in his unyielding American optimism, refused to see that she came from a culture where good intentions and clear talk wouldn't cover all wounds. It didn't work that way with her parents, anyway. They were brokenhearted Koreans—that wasn't Jay's fault, but how was he supposed to understand their kind of anguish?

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

If you believe in yourself and work hard, you have a fighting shot at having your dreams come true.

Die in a good way, obviously.

I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

Sometimes You Just Have to Put on Lip Gloss and Pretend to Be Psyched

I think sometimes when we grew up with a parent who is deeply flawed....we learn, subconsciously at least, to expect the worst from everyone else as well....Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way forever. We can learn to see with new eyes if we try.

Turn your face to the sun, as flowers know how to do.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

The worthy attendant said: Take heart, my lord!