Quotes About Optimism

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

Life is so good, and it gets better every day.

Things will be alright. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything that I would change about my life.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

He [Barry Goldwater] was called "the cheerful malcontent." It takes a rare and fine temperament to wed that adjective with that noun. His emotional equipoise was undisturbed by the loss of 44 states as a presidential nominee. Perhaps he sensed that he had won the future. We -- 27,178,188 of us -- who voted for him in 1964 believe he won, it just took 16 years to count the votes.

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die. - Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Former Prime Minister of Canada

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

Any landing you could walk away from was a good landing.