Quotes About Optimism

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for good roles to come my way.

I could lose every Old Firm game I go into and still win the league.

It's so cheesy, but I'm a firm believer in 'If you build it, they will come.'

I firmly believe you don't get better until you've been at your worst.

I firmly believe there are no bad people.

I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

You don't play as well as you want in the first half - I mean, who cares? Put it behind you. There's always a next play to be had.

Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you can step out into that morning sunrise and know, from our American example, that life does not have to be the way it is for you.

I'm dementedly optimistic, and whoever I'm with usually feels they have to balance my more wayward optimism.

I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

I want to make sure I always show off my smile and have a positive attitude the whole time, whether it's during a performance, practice, or doing an interview.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

I am glad that mankind on the whole are dreamers.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it. I believe that wholeheartedly.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.