Quotes About Optimism

Give yourself ten years of failing with a smile on your face. If, after ten years, you still have the passion, you're heading to success!

When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we've had since about the 1930s. I don't blame the Internet for that - that would be ridiculous.

We got a thumbs-down from every label. But you gotta keep the faith, man. You gotta hang in there and be tenacious.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Markets tend to shake you up before a bull run.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

I tend to look at the silver lining of things.

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.

I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.

I think, of course, when you are coming somewhere, when you know you are playing good tennis, it always helps you.

Even though I'm 32, I feel like I'm playing my best-ever tennis and like the best years are ahead of me.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

It's always good to live in future tense.

We are going to serve our full term; there will be no snap election, and we are going to do our best to ensure that 2016 is going to be a good economic year.

There are legitimate concerns long term, in my view, about nuclear war and policy and stuff like that. But the world has become a better place every 20 years for the last 2,000 years.

In terms of the sport itself, I think we need to stop talking ourselves down.

In terms of films, I don't like to show pain. I'd like to show hope.

All of everything we've ever done has been riding on low expectations. 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' a terrible idea. Doing '21 Jump Street' as a movie is a terrible idea. 'The Lego Movie' sounds like a terrible idea.

It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

I'm terribly happy at the moment - someone up there must be looking out for me.