William Arthur Ward Quotes

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

I'm an eternal optimist.

I'm always an optimist!

You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.

Even if things are not going well for you... just stay in the positive way of thinking.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

I always remain optimistic.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.

I'm a very positive person, that's something that's like my character Savannah. She's very positive in everything that she does and I'm the same way in real life. If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it. I just ignore it because sometimes when that happens you can get so involved that it does bring down your day.

I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.

I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.

I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.

'Try Again' - every time I hear that song, it just brings a smile to your face. When you're feeling like crap, and you hear, 'Dust yourself off and try again,' it kind of just puts you in a different mindset, 100 percent.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.