Quotes About Optimism

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios burn themselves out and eat themselves up and they are careless about themselves... I swing between happiness and misery and I cry easily. I am a mixture of my mother's determination and my father's optimism. And how do I explain what I am? Part prude and part non-conforming and I say what I think and I don't dissemble...

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.

Everything is possible to one who has faith.

I truly believe anything is possible if you fully manifest it.

You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.

Spending time with negative people can be the fastest way to ruin a good mood. Their pessimistic outlooks and gloomy attitude can decrease our motivation and change the way we feel. But allowing a negative person to dictate your emotions gives them too much power in your life. Make a conscious effort to choose your attitude.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

I will not get very far with this attitude.

Attitude is altitude.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Consistency and will are, therefore, important dimensions of strategic competence. But our will is diminished. As our foreign policies swung from over-optimism to resignation, identity politics interacted with new forms of populism. That interaction divided us and diminished confidence in our democratic principles, institutions, and processes.

Don't focus on what sucks, focus on what's possible

But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.