Quotes About Optimism

When I got the phone call that I was going to be on 'Drag Race' I thought I was going to win. I thought I was going to win 'Drag Race' before I was even cast. I'm not even being funny. I'm being serious.

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.

I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it be?' But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.

Physically I feel great, and mentally I feel great.

You have to be confident enough to pick yourself up and go to 30 meetings and be told no every time and not take that to heart.

People only see what they want to see and sometimes you can't do anything about that, so you just pick up the baton and you just run with it.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is getting bigger.

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it with a pinch of salt.

America is not going to side with the people that think our best days are behind us. It's not going to side with the people that think we pit people against each other, even if they believe at their core - which I think some of these people do - that, you know, ultimately Trump would make things better.

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.

I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I rarely look back; instead, I always look forward. There is so much of life that we miss when we wallow in regret.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

The strongest bull markets I've been in are built on walls of worry.

I certainly didn't grow up feeling there were brick walls in front of me.