Optimistic Quotes
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I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
John Lithgow
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Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.
Martin Seligman
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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
Bob Dole
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Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.
Kumail Nanjiani
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I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.
Brad Listi
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Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.
Hanya Yanagihara
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It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.
Barack Obama
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I like to write, and I try to be positive and optimistic.
Keith Hernandez
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I will not end on a happy note, because there isn't one. But neither do I despair. One doesn't fight only when one is optimistic. One fights because it is the right thing to do and because America remains, as Lincoln said, 'the last best hope of earth.'
Dennis Prager
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
David Attenborough
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My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy.
Paul Rust
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I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
Antonio Banderas
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I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.
J. J. Abrams
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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
Albert Schweitzer
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During the third quarter, we saw increasing activity levels across all of our major businesses and believe overall market conditions support a generally optimistic outlook.
Henry Paulson
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I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.
Brad Feld
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Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.
Brian Tracy
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As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.
Bill Gates
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It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.
Charles Osgood
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
George Bernard Shaw
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I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.
Jacqueline Woodson
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I'm probably the most optimistic person in the country, ... The only way for me to go is up.
David Steele Fine Young Cannibals
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It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.
Charles Albert Gobat
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I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.
Luis Fonsi