Quotes about Optimism

I'm romantic - a sentimental person thinks things will last - a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

My life... my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grown in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

What are you looking at? I was just thinking that you're going to be rather happy. Nicole was frightened: Am I? All right--things couldn't be worse than they have been.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

If a door is shut, go up and wiggle it a little - don't assume it's locked.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

It's true that Darwin didn't live the optimally utilitarian life. No one ever has. Still, as he prepared to die, he could rightly have reflected on a life decently and compassionately lived, a string of duties faithfully discharged, a painful, if only partial, struggle against the currents of selfishness whose source he was the first man to see. It wasn't a perfect life; but human beings are capable of worse.

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

If you think you can - you can!