Quotes About Optimism

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

She's an old, close-to-the-ground, jelly-belly woman with bald patches showing through her wispy grey hair. It doesn't seem like she's got a lot going for her, but she's still smiling. Been around the sunflowers too long, I'd say.

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

We all deserve the best possible future.

Hope always speaks the loudest.

have a favorite way of defining hope: the joyful anticipation of good.

Let's be, for a while, true optimists, and operate on the assumption that human beings are not grossly defective. Let's assume we're capable of acting together to do remarkable things.

It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory.

I know in my heart that man is good," the inscription on Reagan's tombstone reads, "that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

If I couldn't see the upside, I couldn't be bothered, and as soon as I couldn't see the upside in that job I started looking elsewhere.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light,even though for the moment you do not see.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were to spread positive energy on the Internet, the world would be a much better place.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.