Optimistic Quotes

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me' is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can't wait for people to hear it!

I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life, I try not to take anything too seriously, I try to and I do find a ton of joy and happiness in my life and I think that helps you stay youthful.

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the world, in general, and just say, "We've had enough."

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

There were 16 people in the race, including a number of governors, and there's only one left. And I think that at the end we have to make sure that we have somebody that can go to that town, change that system, grow employment, change the whole way in which it works and ship power money and influence back to the states. So I'm optimistic about it.

Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.

Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

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.

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me.

Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

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.

I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.