Quotes About Optimism

Sometimes, when things look terrible...you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great.

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward.

You did the impossible, because you didn't realize it was impossible.

I'm not sure," Atkinson replied. "Maybe six months." It was a wildly optimistic assessment, but also a motivating one.

The Pepsi Generation campaign, he said, sold not a product but a lifestyle and an optimistic outlook.

The idealistic wind of the sixties is still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that ingrained in them forever.

Having a healthy disregard for the impossible

Because I didn't know it couldn't be done, I was enabled to do it.

Lograbas hacer lo imposible porque no te dabas cuenta de que era imposible.»

One evening at a dinner, Murray's wife asked him why he remained so cheerful given the depravity of the world. "We must remember that this is a very small star," he responded, "and probably some of the larger and more important stars may be very virtuous and happy.

We must remember that this is a very small star," he responded, "and probably some of the larger and more important stars may be very virtuous and happy."73

One can oppose the shallow optimism of so many Western thinkers and yet refuse to negate life.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capabilities.

Ye never saw dull weather clear without a shower; and if the world is turned upside down, why, honest men have the better chance to cut bread out of it.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature.

Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.

There's joy all around, if you only look for it.

A day without smiling is a wasted day.

Since you can't change the past, you may as well make the best of the present.

I would rather be certain of a good result than hopeful of a great one.

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism—some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

For 240 years, it's been a terrible mistake to bet against America.