Richard Jefferson Quotes

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

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

I'm an optimist by nature.

I may be an optimist.

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

If you have luck on your side and are strong mentally, you can succeed in Europe.

I just always believed we would succeed. Even when everyone else said my ideas were ridiculous. Even when we were almost out of money. Even when the metrics were all upside down. I always have confidence that I'll figure something out. I just have that confidence that things are going to work out fine.

Our chances are always pretty good

I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

I'm a lucky guy. No question.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

I'm always optimistic.

I'm a lucky buck.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.