Quotes About Optimism

Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

Hodges remembers an old saying: even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.

OH SHIT! I BELIEVE IN ALL OF THOSE THINGS! he shouted, and it was true: even at eleven he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

There is no bad time for good news.

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind that the only way to make them into lemonade was to squeeze the hell out of them.

When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Whoever said misery loves company was full of shite. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong , however... that guy was onto something.

We go to seek a better world. May you find one, as well.

even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.

People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes.

I want to tell you something else, something I'm really starting to believe: I'm going to be okay. Not today, not tomorrow, and not next week, but eventually. As okay as we mortals are privileged to get, anyway. It's good to know that—good to know that survival is still an option, and that sometimes it even feels good. That sometimes it actually feels like victory.

They say half a loaf is better than none, Jimmy, but in a world of want, even a single slice is better than none.

Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.