Quotes About Optimism

I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.

I plan for the best and expect the worst.

We all go through things in life, and it's just how you deal with it. Try to stay positive throughout the worst.

I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

As an entrepreneur and public company CEO, I've dealt with dozens of rollouts, and when unveiling a new product, the operating approach should be, 'Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.'

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

You know, I have no worst experiences.

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

The United States of America on our worst day is better than any other country on their best day. Period. End of story.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

The worst thing I've done while sad is sit in defeat. That's very unhealthy. The best thing to do is dust yourself off and try again.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

Even when it doesn't look good, it's always good. Even the worst thing, there's always something good that comes out of it. I've learned that.

My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don't sit around.

I'm a strong believer in Intel's stock. That's a large amount of my net worth, and I'm passionate about Intel's future.

Assume the best intent in others around you. You will often be right, and even when you're not, people can rise to your view of them. Not always, but enough that I believe it's worth it.

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.