Quotes About Optimism

I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'll always assume it's indigestion. It will probably be the end of me! But it's true - that's the kind of person I am.

I wake up every day with a smile - I'm a blessed man, and every day is special.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.

My husband and I met on OKCupid. We went out on our little coffee date, and I knew right away he was my husband. He's a handsome, smarty-pants architect from Tokyo. On our first date, I said, 'I wake up like this. I'm Pollyanna Sunshine, and I'm not for everyone'.

I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.

I think every day you wake up, and you do the best you can do that day.

I don't think anyone wakes up and says, 'I want my life to suck today.'

I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.

There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself.

A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Never walk into a hospital crying. Have an attitude that you will make someone else's life better.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

Whether I'm 0-for-10 or 10-for-10, every time I walk to the plate I believe I'm going to hit a missile.

When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong.

Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.