Quotes About Optimism

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

If I tell you there's cheese on the moon, bring the crackers.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

I keep telling the players to enjoy the good moments. There are too many moments in this world currently that are pretty miserable and downbeat, so if there is light at certain times, I want them to enjoy it.

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

Success and failure is temporary. So don't let them get to you.

Losing isn't bitter because it's temporary.

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

We always place that little word "but" after our wishes and desires, feeling deep down that there are some things too good to be true.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

Often he rose early in the morning, before anyone else, and poured himself liquid through the sunrise streets, and everything seemed beautiful, everything in its proper orbit, nothing impossible, the entire world attainable.

Keep on truckin'.

The Progressives] outlook was activist and optimistic, not fatalist and despondent. The distinctive characteristic of the Progressives was their conviction that social evils would not remedy themselves and that it was foolhardy to wait passively for time's cure. As Herbert Croly put it, they did not believe that the future would take care of itself. Neither should we.