Optimistic Quotes
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As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.
Fidel Castro
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Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.
Dan Gilbert
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I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
Martin Seligman
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The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
Pete Seeger
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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
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Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
Buzz Aldrin
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Finally, develop tenacity and an optimistic outlook. It doesn't mean that everything will always work out or that you won't suffer. But pessimism seems to be designed to force you to suffer before the fact!
William Foege
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No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
Harmon Killebrew
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Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
Daniel Kahneman
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But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
John Hench
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The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
Orson F. Whitney
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Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
Andy Dunn
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Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
Craig Sager
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A lot of the things that happened to me came out of the blue, but I'm exactly the same person now as I was when I was sick. I'm still a very optimistic person.
Jameela Jamil
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Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
Jared Diamond
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I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
Nader al-Masri
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It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
Jimmy Buffett
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
Zig Ziglar
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I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.
Colin Farrell
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I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
Ken MacLeod
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I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.
Anne Sweeney
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I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.
Christopher Reeve
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Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child