Quotes About Optimism

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?

I try not to be too realistic. It's better to be over-positive.

Me playing for the Knicks is not realistic.

I'm a very optimistic person, woman, mother and singer. And at the same time, I'm very realistic when I look at other aspects of my life.

For us, it's always important to improve and keep things realistic.

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Hope is the denial of reality.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

You gotta have faith. You gotta keep your head up.

If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'

I've never gotten into anything that I didn't feel I'd be successful doing.

When things don't go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don't take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.

I'm not taking anything for granted at all.

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.

I'm not going to focus on the bad days. I choose to live in gratitude.

I have embraced every day with gratitude.

You are not dead until you are in that grave, so don't close the book. Don't give up.

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.