Quotes About Optimism

My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.'

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

Fortunately, economists open to new ways of thinking are finding novel ways to use supposedly irrelevant factors to make the world a better place.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the Dallas Cowboys a Super Bowl.

I've never had a ground-breaking hit that changed the deal. It's always been slowly but surely for me, and I've never had a moment of sheer panic when I thought I was never going to work again. So I can't really complain.

I've gotten better every year. I'm only going to continue to get better and better, and I'm just scratching the surface. I'm 25 years old, and I've been hooping at a high level for a long time.

I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

I remember after the surgery, the next day, my mom was like, you know, 'Don't get your bandage dirty. Don't go outside and throw the ball.' But I came back inside with a football in my hand with a bloody bandage, but I knew I felt better. And I was just happy to play.

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

As a footballer, you have to be confident you can win all the time so it does not come as a surprise.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.