Quotes About Optimism

At the same time, the statistics are useful in a sobering way. They inform us that our adversary is formidable and they guard us against irrational optimism.

People doom and damn themselves with their own perverse and pessimistic beliefs about reality.

David Sosnowski

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.

Just tell yourself, "No broken windows.

Hay gente que hace de su ingenuidad su bote de navegación por el mar tormentoso.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Walliams

Raj was a big jolly man, who always had a smile on his face, even if you told him his shop was on fire.

was a big jolly man, who always had a smile on his face, even if you told him his shop was on fire.

Fred nodded and said, "So what you're saying is, if we all die, that's not even the worst-case scenario." John replied, "I'd still like to shoot a little higher than that, Freddy.

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

If you expect

Hope springs eternal, unfortunately it springs from a well poisoned with Jim Jones' Kool Aid

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism

The content of the glass is far more important than whether it is half full or half empty

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

what's the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

There will be much darkness ahead—but, in the end, there will be light.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.