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Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

I'm always optimistic.

Well, I'm an optimist.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

When you're doing well, a lot of people will recognise it, and when you're not doing well it's the same. It is about how you deal with it and control your mentality.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

I never think about losing.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

Failure usually works for me in the end.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

I've never seen a low point. I like to believe that they don't exist.