Optimistic Quotes

• Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • American
  • Optimistic

• I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.

  

  Faris Badwan
  • Lyrics
  • Optimistic
  • Contradictory

• There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Trying
  • Future
  • Society

• I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• I always was and always will be optimistic.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Optimistic

• I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

  

  Alice Herz-Sommer
  • Life
  • Laughing
  • Optimistic

• When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Persons
  • Insecure
  • Joyous

• The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Long
  • Forever
  • Program

• In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.

  

  Henry Sy
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Challenges

• This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime. Even if it seems hopeless now, never give up. Offer a positive vision, with enthusiasm and joy, and an optimistic outlook.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • World
  • Responsibility

• More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Great
  • Science
  • Fear

• Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • World
  • Children
  • Bring

• I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Optimistic

• We continue to be optimistic about our long-term prospects for profitable growth.

  

  George Fisher Cannibal Corpse
  • Growth
  • Optimistic

• The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • inspirational
  • Motivational
  • Encouragement

• We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.

  

  Andrew Aydin
  • Optimistic
  • Lifetime
  • Hopeful

• I'm much more optimistic about the future than I probably was.

  

  Norman Pearlstine
  • Future
  • Optimistic
  • Probably

• Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Character
  • Picture
  • Optimistic

• My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Optimism
  • Loud
  • Heavy

• I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Optimistic

• It's all about believing in yourself and knowing your worth and being optimistic and really just loving yourself for who you are.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Optimistic
  • Loving
  • Believing

• "Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.

  

  Dan Gillmor
  • Teacher
  • Brother
  • Attitude

• All of those things are gradually coming true, so I'm cautiously optimistic about the way the business is developing in the United States.

  

  Bob Lutz
  • Business
  • True
  • United States

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