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Quotes About Optimism

When SpongeBob's perseverance shines through, and you root for him - that's when the show is working.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
~ George Burns
I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time.
~ Lee Min-ho
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
~ Calvin Klein
When times are down, keep believing, keep working hard, and things will pick up.
~ Harry Kane
Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.
~ Justin Timberlake
I believe that if you stay positive and you keep your nose to the ground and you keep working hard for every inch that eventually will pay off and something will roll your way.
~ Shawn Spears
Whenever you get a chance, you take it, so I just need to keep my head up, keep working hard every day, so if I get my chance, I'll take it.
~ Kelechi Iheanacho
I will just keep working hard and keep believing in myself.
~ Kelechi Iheanacho
I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.
~ Tom Rath
I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'
~ Homaro Cantu
I have been over into the future, and it works.
~ Lincoln Steffens
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
~ Joseph Campbell
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
~ Anne Frank
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
~ Carl Rogers
If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
~ Lucy Larcom
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
~ Anna Lee
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
If you're not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It's going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.
~ Katy Mixon
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
~ Emma Goldman
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
~ Oscar Wilde
All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.
~ Sebastian Vettel
Cameroon can win the World Cup. People think I am crazy when I say this, but if you believe you have the best team in the world, you are stronger.
~ Samuel Eto'o