Quotes About Optimism

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

We think big and we dream big.

You always have to dream big and think big.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere.

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

I'm not really a negative thinker.

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

The power of positive thinking can change your life.

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way.

Some people say they have a thirst for life. They're excited about every day and they're prepared to look the bad and the good straight in the face and greet it all with a smile. I like to think I'm one of those people.

I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

I've always had a tendency to keep an emergency exit in a song. I can't remember ever writing a song that is completely and thoroughly depressing; there's always been a way out somehow. A sense of hope in song, regardless of the subject matter.