Quotes About Optimism

I'd rather look to the future than to the past.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

If a rating is bad in another sport, do you see a writer say, 'This sport's over?' No.

Like Winston Churchill said, 'Never give up,' and I won't give up. It's a miracle that we even got on the air, and I'm very pleased with the ratings and the response.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

I think it's rational to assume the best in other people because most people are pretty decent.

I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

When you come off a losing season - one of the worst seasons in all of basketball - and get guys like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, two perennial All-Stars, we felt like we had a championship team.

I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.

I have learned that you need to have patience, perseverance, and faith in people to reach your goals.

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.

I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.

With my reading, I like something with quite a happy ending.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

I am a very positive person in real life.