Quotes About Being Too Optimistic

#1. Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

Anthony Jeselnik

#2. One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.

Amy Dickinson

#3. To stop being resistant to your success coming together, just say Yes.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#4. An older generation, chastened by one depression, is afraid to be optimistic; and a younger generation, accustomed to security, is inexperienced at being pessimistic.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#5. Being optimistic is the worst attitude in the world to have.

Tijan

#6. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

Roy Bennett

#7. It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Beth Riesgraf

#8. Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

Roy Bennett

#9. When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

John Lewis

#10. I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

Ken MacLeod

#11. My baseline function is I'm usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I've got a spring in my step - that's what I've been like all my life.

Jenny Slate

#12. I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed.

George Takei

#13. Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Bill Bryson

#14. Being optimistic is the view looking for the best, it comes with the "never give up" attitude.

Pearl Zhu

#15. There was something obscene about a billionaire's being optimistic and aggressive and cunning.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

John Bishop

#17. To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

Criss Jami

#18. Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.

Jon Gordon

#19. I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.

James Frey

#20. I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

Gordon Clark

#21. Having a positive outlook means being optimistic even when you have continuous failures, and keep re-working on your plans.

Kandathil Sebastian

#22. I think Albertans are progressive and forward-looking and are very optimistic, and I think they've always embraced change. Now with the economy being the way it is, I think we need to acknowledge people are a bit nervous too.

Rachel Notley

#23. Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

Martin Seligman

#24. I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

Jose Saramago

#25. I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.

Emily Mortimer

#26. Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

Benjamin Franklin

#27. Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#28. Be optimistic about everything in life.

Michael Jordan

#29. Love like this wasn't supposed to be missed, even for those of us that had never realized it was out there. Look at me being all optimistic and shit.

Jay Crownover

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

Nelson Mandela

#31. Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.

Roy Bennett

#32. Cats are good at keeping clean [ ... ] Dogs are good at running forever without getting tired. And I think that pigs are good at being optimistic and not giving up even when things are really bad. So today we're going to do things the pig way, okay?

Chris Kurtz

#33. The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.

Wendy Ewald

#34. His optimistic dream of the great American adventure was what made his writing alive, his belief in the essential joyousness of following his own emotions and being excited by the promise of life.

Ann Charters

#35. Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

Colin Powell

#36. I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.

Kyla Pratt

#37. Of course the fall semester didn't start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I'd be alive when it rolled around.

Jenna Black

#38. Stop being so ... optimistic, its getting on my nerves."
"No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?"
"Just shut up."
"Can do."
"Really? Doesn't seem like it."
-Jacob and seth

Stephenie Meyer