Charles Dickens Quotes

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

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

No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Something will turn up.

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.

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

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.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!"

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.