Quotes About Optimism

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?" asked Coke, who in the last two weeks had been forced to jump off a cliff, dipped into boiling oil, drowned in ice cream, and gassed in a rest-stop bathroom. "Well, okay…" "Yay!

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

Being positive will inject in you a sense of peace and tranquility amidst the troubled waters.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Smith's confidence prevented him from appreciating the possibility of failure. The only thing that lay ahead was planning and building—turning his utopian vision into reality.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Expect the best, prepare for the worst. Right?" "As long as a person doesn't spend all their time preparing for the worst and miss when they stumble across the best.

In your whole life, only in young childhood, and only if you were very fortunate, could you get a measure of innocence—a time free of knowing what will come, of what must come. Those moments, that simple engagement of only what was wonderful about being alive, that love, really, would be at the center of you forever; deep inside, you would have this tender core that believed everything would be okay.

When economists get it right, the world gets better.

Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through.

Staying positive is one of the hardest fights, though I'm happy I'm in it.

I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.

You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you're having a good day.

He's very smart, but the smartest thing about him is that he thinks sort of like an eight-year-old," says Jeanne Markel, director of culture for the Downtown Project. "He keeps things really simple and positive when it comes to people.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

Cautious Brain Types often look to the future with trepidation, but when you are wrapped up in the future, it means you are missing out on the present and live with a baseline level of anxiety, which creates misery.

ANT Species of ANT Kill the ANT You never listen to me. "Always/Never" Thinking I get frustrated when you don't listen to me, but I know you have listened to me and will again. The boss doesn't like me. Mind Reading I don't know that. Maybe she's just having a bad day. Bosses are people, too. The whole class will laugh at me. Fortune-telling I don't know that. Maybe they'll really like my speech.

correctly reprogramming the brain is more than reminding yourself to think happy thoughts. I prefer that you adopt a mindset of "accurate thinking" with a positive or optimistic can-do spin to stay in the right frame of mind—happy. However, that's not easy to do because the default setting on the brain—set back in prehistoric times—is negativity.

Pollyanna's philosophy about finding something to be glad about in any situation is an excellent way to go through life. If there were ever a good time to play the Glad Game, then today would undoubtedly qualify. But no matter what situation or setback you find yourself in, I urge you to ask yourself this question: What is there to be glad about?

events that challenge our optimistic beliefs can sometimes make us more rather than less optimistic.

within a couple of weeks even earthquake survivors return to their normal level of unfounded optimism.

We cannot feel good about an imaginary future when we are busy feeling bad about an actual present.

Instead of swirling downward into frustration, "Yes and" spirals upward toward possibility. When you stop you've got a set of options, not a sense of futility.