Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

It's the first time in six or seven years that there's been this sense of optimism and that's been reflected in the season ticket sales.

There's a lot of optimism that this stimulus is going to work.

There's a lot of optimism in the sector and not a lot of pessimism.

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

F. H. Bradley

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Francis Maude

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

Francis Parker Yockey

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

It was a discouraging verdict, but we think there's plenty of reason for optimism on an appeal.

Herbert Croly

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

Ernest Hemingway

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Erich Fromm

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Jasper Fforde

I wished I could share my own optimism.

Nelson Mandela

I approach every problem with optimism.

Noam Chomsky

There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."

Marian Keyes

Optimism can be relearnt.

Mike Dooley

Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side.

Mark Twain

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

Mark Twain

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Kirk Douglas

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

What you must do, do cheerfully.

Michael Lewis

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Michael Stipe

I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.

Michael J. Fox

Optimism is a cure for many things.

Michel de Montaigne

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

Margery Allingham

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Seamus Heaney

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Shonda Rhimes

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Jane McGonigal

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

Ernest Shackleton

Optimism is the true moral courage

Olivia Wilde

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

Howard Mumford Jones

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.