Quotes About Optimism

You will get cynicism, and the only way to break through is keep showing people and take actions.

I think there's more to be happy about than sad about on a daily basis.

I never did think I had brain damage.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that.

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

We were always thinking big, dreaming big - no project was too big for us to tackle, and that comes from how we were raised. Our parents actually said to us, 'If somebody says you can't do something, find five ways to do it.'

If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

If you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

I wouldn't be surprised if this album cycle for 'Cardiology' is the funnest couple years we ever see. We've made all of our mistakes; we've kind of learned. Now we know what to avoid, we know what to embrace, we know how to take a deep breath and enjoy the moment.

No matter how bad your hotel is, take a deep breath, because if you can get through a night, it won't seem quite so bad the following morning.

I'm all in on the Los Angeles Clippers. We're moving forward. We've got to work to be the best we can be to take advantage of all the assets in the community.

It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.

I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43. I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.

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.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

At the end of the day, my optimistic personality always takes over.

I'm not a manager. I just try my best and see where it takes me.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.