Pollyanna Quotes

Don't be a Pollyanna!

— Richard Diebenkorn

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

— Dan Savage

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

— Bill Ayers

“I tell you, troubles are poor things to hug. They've got to many pickers.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

— Franklin P. Adams

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

— Anna Quindlen

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

— Eleanor Porter

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think…

— Jonathan Frakes

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's…

— Tracy Pollan

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

— Eleanor Porter

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.…

— Bill Ayers

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

— Graham Collier

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to…

— Christina Baldwin

Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner…

— Rita Mae Brown

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady…

— Christopher Meloni

Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of…

— Weegee

Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em.…

— Anonymous

Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that…

— Joe Tye

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet…

— Anonymous

I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you…

— Robin Roberts

“If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad…

— Ray Bradbury

Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual…

— Jonathan Alter

In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen.…

— Dale Carnegie

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future…

— Ray Bradbury

'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said…

— Eleanor Porter

I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't…

— Tod Goldberg

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of…

— Ann Patchett

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it…

— Michael J. Fox

To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in…

— Brennan Manning

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,'…

— Ramez Naam

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most…

— Harlan Coben

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be…

— Mark Skousen

“...this is very nice, cozy. You got a nice cozy place, Lublin." "Cramped," Rosa said. "I work from a different theory. For…

— Cynthia Ozick