Pollyanna Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers… — Harlan Coben
Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can… — Dale Carnegie
Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got… — Christopher Meloni
If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly… — Jonathan Frakes
Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been torn… — Joe Tye
I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type. — Dan Savage
My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. — Eleanor Porter
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 what makes me… — Tracy Pollan
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. — Bill Ayers
Don't be a Pollyanna! — Richard Diebenkorn
I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living… — Ray Bradbury
That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds… — Michael J. Fox
Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who… — Mark Skousen
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I… — Chuck Palahniuk
Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if… — Eleanor Porter
To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances… — Brennan Manning
I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy. — Ted Danson
Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to transform. — Christina Baldwin

Who Wrote These Pollyanna Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Pollyanna Quotes as follows: