Quotes and Sayings About Optimistic
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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
