Quotes About Optimism

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.

I desperately wanted to go to drama school and after that I've always been delighted to be offered employment - to view everything that comes my way as a chance to get better.

I am a person with no desperation and I live on hope, but the difference is that I do not compromise on hope.

When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.

I'm very determined, and I know I can achieve, so I don't let little setbacks put me down.

There was a time when I doubted if I would find love again. But I was determined to be happy.

We're getting closer. I believe a 5-year-old with diabetes will live long enough to be cured.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

My first task is to show how great we are as a nation - let's banish the pessimists.

I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

My parents taught me to be optimistic and independent. They made me feel that I could do anything I set my mind to, which has really helped me. They didn't make allowances for me because of my height. I had to do everything my brother and sister had to do, including raising our animal menagerie that included cows and chickens.

As a child, I was taught that you can achieve, and you can do anything you want.

My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.

Life teaches you to go positive every moment in your life.

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

And anyway, for every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

When People Are at Their Worst Your Goal: Project and Expect the Best ACTION PLAN 1. Use Pygmalion Power. 2. Give the benefit of the doubt. 3. Appreciate criticism.

America had not yet become Reagan's America. Not yet. Reagan's America would embrace an almost official cult of optimism—the belief that America could do no wrong. Or, to put it another way, that if America did it, it was by definition not wrong. That would come later. But signs were already pointing in that direction.

People want to believe. Ronald Reagan was able to make people believe.