Quotes About Optimism

When I do look at myself, I see someone who is fundamentally optimistic. Quite a lot of what I do in my television work involves the less than pleasant aspects of human nature, yet I'm never pessimistic.

I've always believed in myself, quite frankly, and believed in my abilities.

When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around in a quitter.

I'm a positive person. Things were cancelled? So what? Wally's going on. Why are people so negative? I'm not a quitter.

We're liberals, so quitting is not an option. We will push through the hard days so we can celebrate together on the good ones.

I am looking forward to my next race. What comes, comes.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

I just feel so confident when I get in my race car that I'm going to do good, I'm going to win, I'm going to outrun everybody.

I was confident that I not only could win races, but I could win the championship.

Even in the middle of races, when things don't go well, I don't let it bother me nearly as much as I used to in the past.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.

There's times where I go off the rails like anybody else. For the most part, I try to keep it, 'Hey, this is what we're dealt and this is the situation, so let's make the best of it.' Keep a positive attitude.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative.

Hope raises no dust.

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

Everything in life is about confidence. The more you have, the further you'll go usually.

Without faith, life is futile.