Optimistic Quotes

• I'm getting optimistic. I think, as I talk to people around the country - they seem to get it. They want a return to those things that made America different and great.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Optimistic

• But again, I remain optimistic that the impact on energy from these two events will be limited.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Energy
  • Events
  • Impact

• I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Optimistic

• Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Honest
  • Term
  • Optimistic

• 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
  • American
  • Style
  • Simplicity

• Let optimists rule the world.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • Rule
  • Optimistic

• I'm a generally optimistic person.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Optimistic

• 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
  • Good
  • She
  • Small

• 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
  • Team
  • Ability
  • Soccer

• I am optimistic about the future of music.

  

  George Crumb
  • Music
  • Future
  • Optimistic

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• One mistake, your winning streak is over and you've got to start over again. But you have to be optimistic in life, and I find that it's also beautiful, because if things are too predictable, that sucks, too, right?

  

  Alistair Overeem
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Winning

• 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
  • Feeling
  • Car
  • Financial

• At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Optimistic

• 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
  • Future
  • Cool
  • Star

• 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
  • People
  • Mind
  • Kind

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• 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
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

  

  John Wells
  • People
  • Optimistic

• I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.

  

  George Clooney
  • Country
  • Optimistic
  • Fixing

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Cooking
  • Optimistic

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