Ariel Rechtshaid Quotes

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 am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.

Hope is not a matter of age.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

I'm a blind optimist when going into things.

An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building and after 50 floors says, ‘So far, so good!’

I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.

I'm incredibly hopeful - in many ways, still very naive. I think a lot of that has helped me. My sort of naivete has sort of gotten me in trouble at times, but I haven't stopped myself from doing things.

The young give us hope because young people are certain their best days still lie ahead - which explains why they're absolutely convinced they can change the world for the better.

You don't just stop believing in something because it doesn't always work.

The dramas that I worked on were successful, but not the movies. I still have many opportunities, and I will not be discouraged.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

We are a people of improbable hope.

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith.