Optimistic famous quotes
03-21-2025
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
-- Adam Savage -
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.
-- Al Gore -
Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.
-- Alana Stewart -
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
-- Albert Camus -
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein -
We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
-- Alfred Adler -
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 -
I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.
-- Alison Croggon -
This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.
-- Amal El-Mohtar -
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 -
I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
-- Antonio Banderas -
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.
-- Art Linkletter -
Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. We [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.
-- Arthur C. Brooks -
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.
-- Barack Obama -
Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future.I loved Spock.
-- Barack Obama -
There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.
-- Barbara Demick -
I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.
-- Ben Silbermann -
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic,
-- Benjamin Graham -
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.
-- Bernard Beckett -
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.
-- Bernard Williams -
We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims.
-- Bill Frist -
I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
-- Binyavanga Wainaina -
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
-- Bob Brown -
People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.
-- Bob Losure -
I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It's like driving a car. It's simple if you know how to do it.
-- Bob Proctor -
My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.
-- Bob Seger -
I look at a woman and I don't see what's wrong with her. I see what's right.
-- Bobbi Brown -
I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something...
-- Brad Leithauser -
By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.
-- Brian Tracy -
Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.
-- Brian Tracy -
Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.
-- Brian Tracy -
The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
-- Brian Tracy -
I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.
-- Brigid Schulte -
I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.
-- Bruce Kent -
Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.
-- Cameron Sinclair -
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
-- Cameron Sinclair -
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
-- Carl Rogers -
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
-- Carl Sagan -
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
-- Carl Sandburg -
I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?
-- Cassandra Clare -
Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
-- Cate Blanchett -
When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it. And you do that by loving the wacky, endlessly optimistic, enthusiasticall y uninhibited free spirit that is the essence of style, the quintessence of heart, and uniquely you.
-- Cecelie Berry -
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
-- Chaka Fattah -
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
-- Charlaine Harris -
It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.
-- Charles Osgood -
When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
-- Charles Stanley -
Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.
-- Charles Stanley -
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
-- Charlie Chaplin -
Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you'll see the sun come shining through for you.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!
-- Charlie Crist -
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
-- Charlie Pierce -
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
-- Christian D. Larson -
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
-- Christina Stead -
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.
-- Christopher Reeve -
In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.
-- Chuck Close -
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.
-- Claudia Rankine -
Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.
-- Conor McGregor -
You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day..
-- Cotton Fitzsimmons -
Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.
-- Dan Miller -
I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.
-- Dan Quayle -
Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.
-- Dana Reeve -
Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.
-- Dana Reeve -
Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic. What fans are interested in is 'throwawayability': which teams toss away hard-earned leads? Now we know that 'throwawayability' exists because we proved last season that 'bouncebackability' exists (although, hilariously, Palace don't have it) and 'throw-awayability' is the flip side of it.
-- Daniel Finkelstein -
I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.
-- Daniel Goleman -
Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.
-- Daniel Goleman -
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.
-- Danny Wallace -
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
-- David Attenborough -
We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.
-- David Bromstad -
Analysts have always been overly optimistic.
-- David Dreman -
I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
-- David Geffen -
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
-- David Hume -
In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
-- David Landes -
"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?"'
-- David Miliband -
If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.
-- Dean Martin -
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
-- Deana Carter
