Quotes About Optimism

I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.

I love life. I squeeze everything I can out of the day.

Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.

We've all been there, where it seems like all the cards are stacked against you, and you can't seem to do anything right. But you still have to say to yourself, 'You know what? That's not going to stop me. I still have to find a way.'

I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.

I don 't know what the future holds, but what I know is that as long as I can enjoy life, anywhere is my stage.

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'

Everything in life is about standing up and making the most of your opportunities.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.