Gretel Ehrlich Quotes

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

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

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

I'm an eternal optimist.

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.

No matter how bad or negative it gets, I somehow try to find the silver lining.

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

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

I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

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

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

Optimism is my best defense.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

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

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse