Quotes About Optimism

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

It is never too late to have a happy childhood.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

cultivation, of that spirit of the novice: the naïve optimism, the hypervigilant alertness that comes with novelty and insecurity, the willingness to look foolish, and the permission to ask obvious questions—the unencumbered beginner's mind.

My plan is to live forever, so far so good.

They say keep looking up, things could get worse. So I kept looking up and sure enough things got worse.

Today's not my day . . . tomorrows not looking any better.

Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Don't mourn me. Be joyful.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go.

Squeeze every drop from the toothpaste tube of life.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

The building was of stone, originally erected, Leaphorn had been told, by a Church of Christ missionary early in McGinnis's tenure as trader and postmaster. It had been abandoned after the preacher's optimism had been eroded by his inability to cause the Dinee to accept the idea that God had a personal and special interest in humans.

Erasers are your friends on the road to success.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Solution-minded people don't see roadblocks as deal breakers.

Post-national, welfare-state, cooperative, pacific Europe was not born of the optimistic, ambitious, forward-looking project imagined in fond retrospect by today's Euro-idealists. It was the insecure child of anxiety.

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.