Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Alan Greenspan

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Alan Greenspan

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

Chogyam Trungpa

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

David Myers

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Madeleine Albright

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

Arnold Bennett

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Bob Iger

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

Denis Hayes

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

Elizabeth Taylor

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

Dick Thornburgh

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Walter Benjamin

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

Adrienne Rich

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ...

Cameron Crowe

Optimism is a revolutionary act

Antonio Gramsci

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Bruce Lee

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Daniel Kahneman

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

Conor Oberst

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

Drew Houston

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Chuck Palahniuk

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Daisaku Ikeda

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

Dan Miller

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

Cornel West

Optimism is evidence-based.

Colum McCann

I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.

Martin Charnin

Her spirit and her optimism are organic to the American spirit, and that's what this show is about.

There has to be optimism out there. I'm putting in more trees.

Madeleine Albright

I am by nature a worried optimist ...

Bill Crawford

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

Bill Crawford

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Bernard Beckett

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.