Quotes About Optimism

Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK.

I have this intrinsic sense that everything will be okay.

It's okay to dream big.

I have faith that I'll find love again, and if I don't, I'm okay with that.

Everything isn't just gonna be okay. It doesn't just have to be good.

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

I don't believe in giving in to old age.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another year until Rio, maybe I could even become Olympic champion.

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

One day at a time. I live by that.

You have to take things one day at a time.

One of the things I discovered about myself is I'm just really positive.

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

For people who have been ostracized, who have been all the way at the bottom, there's only one way that we can go - and that's up.

I just have an open mind - that's the way I live my life, just crossing the bridge when I come to it.

I've always embraced everything and been open-minded about what's ahead.

It felt like the world had ended when I was fired, but it actually opened the door for my next opportunity.

My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

Todos estamos en el fango, pero algunos miramos las estrellas

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously.  If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't.  Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism.