Quotes About Optimism

Smile awhile, And while you smile, Another smiles, And soon there's miles And miles of smiles, And life's worth while Because you smile.

Start the day with a smile (and get it over with)

A smile is the best defense against this offensive world.

If you didn't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.

Every day you spend without a smile is a lost day.

A smile can brighten the darkest day.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast." Ace Rimmer

Let's start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there's something better out there is to first believe there's something better out there. What other choice is there?

The only way up is up.

The wonderful thing about hope is that it has absolutely no effect on anything. Just throw the switch.

Clinton was Reagan's greatest achievement. He carried forward the Republican agenda by combining a postindustrial fatalism—regulation wasn't possible, austerity was unavoidable, budgets had to be balanced, crime was a condition of culture, not economic policy—with a folksy postmodern optimism.

Endure with a tenacious hope that cannot be found elsewhere.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

Do not ever give up trying - because eventually you will win." Judge Greg Mathis

Where you see darkness, I see stars . - Laech Min-Glsain, from Poems, Prayers and Meditations on the Force, edited by Kozem Pel, Disciple of the Whills

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Pain is inevitable,'" he says. "'Suffering is optional.

I've written this book for one reason: to offer a sense of hope, possibility, and empowerment in a world that often makes us feel small, ineffective, and helpless.

I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's worth doing. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional...Let me know when you're ready to start giving it up.

Whether the glass is half empty or half full depends on if you're drinking from it or filling it." Milt Carp in Dollarapalooza