Pamela Druckerman Quotes

I'm an eternal optimist.

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

The American is by nature optimistic.

Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.

Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.

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

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

I never give up hope.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

I try to make the best of everything.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

I'm an optimist by nature.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

I'm always optimistic.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.