Quotes About Optimism

I tend not to look too much back; I tend to look forward. So, I suppose, I know, I've had probably most of my life, and there's less going forwards than there is going back, but I prefer to look in the future.

My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

Exercise is an amazing tool to help us feel happier, more energised, and more optimistic.

I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I mean, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.

Don't allow negative people to steal your time and energy. Rather than complain about people you don't enjoy, choose to strike up conversations about pleasurable topics.

If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is more wishful thinking than science." "What do the pessimists do?" "The pessimists just keep drinking until they pass out.

If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

I know she absolutely delights in the improvement of the weather, in the turning of the year.

And a man who can make himself merry in the face of those coming disasters that assailed him, as disasters do so many, without grace or favour, is a true hero.

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Denn Hoffnung ist nichts anderes als eine Scherbe im Fuß, hatte sie irgendwo einmal gelesen, die ewig schmerzt, bis man sie endlich herauszieht.

La esperanza es como una astilla de vidrio clavada en el pie. Mientras permanece clavada en la carne sientes dolor a cada paso que das, pero una vez que te la han extraído la herida sangra un poco y tarda un tiempo en cicatrizar, pero al final uno puede seguir caminando.

She chastised me roundly for my "failings". I prefer to call them uneven successes.

It's a tricky place, especially the last sector. I wasn't happy in practice. I wasn't happy with the car and I wasn't happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car.