Quotes About Optimism

It just proves that if you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

Whether you think you can or can't, you're right.

I don't believe in no-win situations

NO MATTER how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better.

it's a better mindset to help me get through each day.

So it's OK that I won't set foot in the Promised Land. It's still a wonderful sight.

I am going to keep having fun every day I have left because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

In the Middle East, optimism is a virtue; realism – a duty.

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

When I flew back to Chicago that fateful day in 1954, I had a freshly signed contract with the McDonald brothers in my briefcase. I was a battle-scarred veteran of the business wars, but I was still eager to go into action. I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns. But I was convinced that the best was ahead of me.

To this day, I remain convinced of this basic philosophy: no matter what quandaries we face—business problems, health issues, relationship difficulties, as well as the great scientific, social, and cultural challenges of our time—there is an idea that can enable us to prevail.

If everything that looks like love really were love, my God, this would be a different and better world and even the darkest nightmares would be followed by unbearably happy days.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Health = positive things minus negative

Health = positive things minus negative things

Hope isn't real by definition, is it? It's just a state of mind....

Ai trong chúng ta thá»±c sá»± bi?t Ä'i?u gì s? x?y ra vá»›i mình? Anh ch? c?n s?ng cuá»™c s?ng c?a mình và hi v?ng vào nh?ng Ä'i?u t?t ??p nh?t

The only advantage he could see in the change was that he had a small desk in his room; his capacity for isolation was thereby increased. But none of this changed his life very much. He continued his games of billiards and his reading. And was periodically overwhelmed by abominable fits of despair from which he was abruptly extricated by a ridiculous but stubborn optimism, an absurd love of life.

when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver

To succeed in life you need three things; a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

To succeed in life you need three things: A back bone; A wish bone; A funny bone.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

On the pitch, I try to be focused and calm and think positive. That's my attitude towards football.