Optimistic Quotes
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Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. ... Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.
Homer Hickam
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We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.
James Rosenquist
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I am usually positive and optimistic. If I get stressed or some results are not so good, I let it go by thinking, 'Oh well, it can be better next time.' I don't worry a lot, and I'm not too serious about anything.
G-Dragon
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I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.
Mary Roach
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At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.
Alex Berenson
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Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.
Uell Stanley Andersen
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As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.
John Wells
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Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.
Reed Hastings
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I'm a generally optimistic person.
Alison Brie
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When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'
Marc Faber
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I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.
Kevin Cramer
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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
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In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
Ray Bradbury
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I'm... fairly optimistic today about the ability of the U.S. economy to absorb these body blows.
Ben Bernanke
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I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't.
Kerry Washington
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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
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I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.
Anne Wojcicki
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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
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I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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I am optimistic about the future of music.
George Crumb
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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
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I love the optimistic American style that Gap celebrates and the simplicity of the basic white T-shirt that allows you to be yourself.
Edward Enninful
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I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.
Eric Whitacre
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One of my favorite indicators of the near-term trend for the economy is auto sales, since folks tend to buy a car when they are feeling optimistic about their financial circumstances.
Kevin Hassett