Calvin Johnson Quotes

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

I'm always optimistic.

Well, I'm an optimist.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

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

At the end of the day, my optimistic personality always takes over.

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

I don't believe in the no-win scenario

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.