Quotes About Optimism

You cannot go back in time and make a good start, but you can always start from where you are right now and make a fantastic finish. Life changes in the blink of an eye. Yet for an optimist, life also offers millions of opportunities at any juncture, anywhere, any time. Always be prepared to dance with Opportunity when she taps on your shoulder - because then only you'll be able to tap the power of "Now"!

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.

Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we're all going to die horribly anyway, what's there to be worried about?

Sanguine chuckled. "I like you, boy. You got optimism in these bones. I like you so much that I ain't gonna tell you what I did to poor old Jethro, the first Jethro, may he rest in peace, may they someday find his head.

The Engineer smiled (internally, for of course it had no mouth). It was feeling good. It was feeling optimistic. Moving at its current speed, it would arrive back in Ireland in plenty of time to shut everything down before a series of overloads and power loops inevitably led to a sequence of events which would, in turn, eventually lead to the probable destruction of the world. The Engineer wasn't worried. And then the truck hit it.

Nothing says "all is good with the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

Did you make a wish?" her dad asked. She nodded. "World peace." He made a face. "Really? World peace? Not a jetpack? I would have wished for a jetpack.

Product of optimism and knowledge is a constant.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions and progress. Followers think and talk about the problems and negative criticism

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.