Quotes About Optimism

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

I credit all of my life's successes to my ability to 'Stay Hyped.'

For me, the biggest successes I've ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record would be a hit. I thought it was an average song.

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction', we all knew.

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.

I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

Negativity just sucks the life out of somebody.

Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the 'sensible grownups' of politics can be realised, with sufficient imagination and determination.

I would suggest that a Green Real Deal is something to be far more excited about than the Green New Deal because the Green New Deal will never happen.

When people suggest we like to 'dream big'... they're absolutely right.

I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen.

I never get sullen, sad, or envious, because those emotions will get me nowhere.

That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?