Quotes About Optimism

I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

My future is full - it is limitless - and my passions for America will remain.

If you think I can't do it, I'll show you I can do it. Just remaining confident. Because if you don't, it's going to chip away at you and it'll take everything away from you.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

If the glass is half-full or half-empty, it remains the same glass.

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.

I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

I believe, ultimately, there are more goodies than baddies in the world, and you have to remind yourself of that.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

We always need little reminders that it's gonna be all good.

There is something to not always reminding people of a show they've already seen, but instead embracing the one right in front of him. I am Cody, and I can promise you that the future is going to be even better than the past.

We love to commiserate and troubleshoot and prepare for the worst, and gratitude yanks us out of that and reminds us of the ridiculous amount of infinite blessings that are around us at all times.

A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

I remember coming up in the business and seeing how the grind turned some executives into grizzled cynics. And I vowed to never become that guy. I have always believed it's incumbent upon network brass to bring a wide-eyed optimism to the chairs they rent. Talent deserves that. And frankly, the jobs are just no fun otherwise.

I think 'Rent' will run forever.

I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.

But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.