Optimistic Quotes
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Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.
Sandra Bullock
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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
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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
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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
Daniel Kahneman
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I always was and always will be optimistic.
Preston Sturges
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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
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Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through one's own experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.
Sergio Leone
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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
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I would say I'm cautiously optimistic.
Channing Dungey
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My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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
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I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
Cate Blanchett
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I'm much more optimistic about the future than I probably was.
Norman Pearlstine
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
William Arthur Ward
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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
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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
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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
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I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!
Lydia Lunch
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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Norton Juster
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Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.
Elif Batuman
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We continue to be optimistic about our long-term prospects for profitable growth.
George Fisher Cannibal Corpse
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I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.
Etgar Keret
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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