It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Today could be the start of something amazing.
Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
To be in the wonderful world of entertainment, you have to be optimistic.
The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.
Always look on the bright side of life.
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life. When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much. I still have plenty of fight left in me.
You gave me faith to find my dreams, you'll never know just what that means.
I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
I approach every problem with optimism.
I am one of those guys that's an optimist. I am always optimistic. I don't know how you can be any other way.
Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look.
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
Everything's gonna be alright.
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.
