Quotes About Optimism

My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

It's necessary to give birth to hope again.

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

I'm a great believer in needing things that give us some hope.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

I'm not a negative person.

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

People always think I'm this zany character. But I think I just see the funny side of life, I don't see the negative side, and I think that's a very good energy to be around.

Why choose to be negative when you don't have to?

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

I never approach a character from a negative place.

Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

I don't do negative things.

I'm blessed, and people's responses to me have never been negative.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

I hope that others can turn their negative thoughts into positive thoughts and improve their own lives.

I'm confident in all my fights. You have to be. You have to put any negative thoughts aside.

You just take the negatives and learn to make a positive out of it.

For everyone who hated, there are a hundred people who showed me love, and so, you know, I'm going to spend time showing them love than focusing on the negatives.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.