Quotes About Optimism

I was giving up-- being realistic , as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

The very act of enunciating the most pessimistic system attests to a fundamental optimism and hope for progress beyond the status quo. Though the good may be impossible to realize, it is also impossible to abandon entirely. The production of knowledge itself points, often despite itself, toward a better future.

ghost44: And if the person doesn't reach back? johnnyrotten: Then they don't reach back. Only you have to believe they will, or you're not really reaching.

Dogs when happy are perfectly happy; and even when things go against them, they assume the best and keep up a cheerful attitude towards life: they are the first Christian Scientists in history. - Richard Burton, Three of a Kind

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

There's more to life then living, so hold on.

We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over- but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically.

A more recent development in the cognitive field is "positive psychology," which has sought to reorient the discipline away from mental problems to the study of what makes people happy, optimistic, and productive.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.

Fear of failure, what is that? It would never occur to me.

When I was growing up and trying to get my foot on the ladder, I had the self-belief that my mother taught me, and it never occurred to me that anything could go wrong. I've learned life can't be like that.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

I believe in myself and the goodness in others, and I think anyone who rolls the dice with me has good odds.

I believe in accepting whatever life offers with a laugh. So if things are dark and terrible, I try to find the funny side to it. Probably that's why I gravitate towards comedy.

I am happy to get good offers. I would make full use of them.

My father, a former Air India official, but essentially an inventor at heart - a man who loved to sometimes break machines just so that he could have the joy of re-engineering them - was a twinkly-eyed, ever-optimistic man of science.

I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'

I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.

We're just not the type of artists that take anything for granted and just feel like, 'Oh yeah, you just know something great is going to happen.' We're not like that.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

All my life, I've been winning, ok?