Quotes About Optimism

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

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.

We must be Bright and Cheerful, long faces do not make Religion

infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

So never mind these failures, these little backslidings. Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. . . . There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will achieve your end.

If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.

I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

I always question myself, but I always say, 'Come on, we can do something good.'

If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

The good part about being a pessimist is, when something bad happens, you're never really devastated by it. And when something good happens, it's such a bonus.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

I didn't vote for Trump. So we've got him. Let's hope for the best. He might do something good.

In my mind, a bubble or over-hyped cycle is driven by something good happening, which is used as a baseline for the next good thing.

My favorite thing to do is to get something good out of something bad.

It is very important to be humble but to maintain the conviction that we can do something good.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

'Tomorrowland' is very much the dream role for me. I've always wanted to do a movie like this. Movies like this aren't made anymore, and it's so cool that I get to be a part of it. I get to do something new and crazy every day, and my character goes through so many different things. I get to do all of it. It's awesome.

Always wear a smile sometime during the day - it makes you feel happier and look younger.