Quotes About Optimism

She thought the world was a good idea that had failed.

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

Always start the day with a smile— that way you get it over with. —OSCAR THEGROUCH

The worst is over, the worst is yet to come

Always believe in miracles, Sarah Booth.

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone's spirits.

Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life.

If what doesn't kill you makes you—well, what doesn't kill you makes you not dead but if what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, then I should be able to lift Cedars-Sinai Hospital and glow in the dark. So I say to myself at this point—BRING IT ON!!!

Hope is a crazy thing. It will make you believe.

we should expect the best in people.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Look at the swell. You'll not find a bigger swell anywhere. It has half the globe for its run-up. You're young. You have the whole world. Don't bother yourself with the past.

Setbacks are stepping stones to something better.

Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

Idealists should always strive to underestimate others, as that will bring them closer to reality.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs.

If I were going uphill, I was relatively happy since I would sooner or later be going downhill. Whereas, if I were going downhill, I wasn't all that happy because I knew I would eventually have to be going uphill.