Quotes About Optimism

You remember when we first took this route?" I ask, recalling our postelection tour before I took the oath of office. "Like it was yesterday," says Carolyn. "I'll never forget it," Danny says. "We were so full of…hope, I guess. We were so sure we'd make the world a better place." Carolyn says, "Maybe you were. I was scared to death.

You learn to live with the paradox. Meanwhile, you keep looking for chances to push the limits back, to do as much as you can as many as you can, every day. Even on the bad days, there's something good you can do.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

I'm supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty," I told her. Without a moment's hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: "It depends on if you're drinking or pouring.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can fi nd humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

This is great

It's hard to think of a better response to a miserable 2020 than spending the next ten years dedicating ourselves to this ambitious goal.

If you believe that the world is coming to an end, perhaps any day now, does it not drain ones motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?

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

Wake up, get up… Shut up. Listen up… Throw up…Mix up, Goof up… Hurry up… How's your day? Looking up.

That life can change, that we're not stuck in vain...

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

Absolutely, he says. If it's at all possible.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

There isn't always an absolute right way and a wrong way to do things, but there usually is a better way, a high-percentage way. The positive thinker generally feels that his way will be the right way and nothing will go wrong, if he just believes. The negative thinker disbelieves. He takes every precaution to prevent the wrong thing from happening, and in doing so has a much better chance of things turning out right in the end.

And pigs will fly," Nada muttered. "They do if you toss them out of a plane," Mac observed. "It's just the landing that ain't pretty.

Well, it always gets better after it gets worse," Turcotte said. "Either that or you're dead.

Walter, how on earth are you going to support this big place with those cartoons of yours? Aren't you afraid you'll go broke?" Walt replied, "Well, if I do fail, Dad, I can get out easy. You notice how this place is built, with rooms along long corridors? If I go broke with my cartoons, I can always sell it for a hospital.

He spoke of hope and opportunity, and the difference between them: Opportunity, he said, was an objective reality. Hope was the faith things could be better.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Happy are the downtrodden.