Quotes About Optimism

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also. And because the moment in which we live is all the time there really is, we can keep going.

I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul. I would like that a lot.

It is so easy to be hopeful in the day time when you can see the things you wish on.

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat. I have no urge to make any concessions like that to the world as yet. I might be like that some day, but I doubt it. I am in the struggle with the sword in my hands, and I don't intend to run until you run me. So why give off the smell of something dead under the house while I am still in there tussling with my sword in my hand?

Some people could look at a mud-puddle and see an ocean with ships. But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. Ah

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes....Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk.

Ah can look through muddy water and see dry land.

She often spoke to falling seeds and said, Ah hope you fall on soft ground, because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed.

The will to make life beautiful was strong.

I have this absurd feeling that I can win every game with any team.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to.

I try to stay positive and be very, very active.

I've learned to adapt to a situation, to make the best of it.

No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

When I played at Ajax, we felt as if we were 1-0 up when we took to the field. We already knew in advance of games that we were going to win.

I'm down for adventure and up for anything.

There's always another adventure if you keep your head above water and I don't have any desire to slow down because it keeps you young.

I hope 2010 is a happy adventurous journey for me.