Quotes About Optimism

I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That's the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, 'Well, that's not possible. It can't happen,' I say, 'Yes it is. I'm going to sit here and show you that it can.'

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald want to have good public schools, good roads and good health care for the people of Wisconsin. We just have to find a way to do it. I think we can.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

If things happen for the good, I say that Lord Krishna wished it so, and if anything goes against me, even then I say Lord Krishna wanted it to happen that way.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

I believed peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea was within reach.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.