Mark Zandi Quotes

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.

It's never as good as it feels, and it's never as bad as it seems.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

It always looks dark at the bottom of a recovery.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.

I really am a cockeyed optimist.

I try not to be too realistic. It's better to be over-positive.

I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.

You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.

It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.