Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Iger

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

Bill Gates

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

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

Neil Gaiman

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

John Templeton

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

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.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

Hector Hugh Munro

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Patricia Cornwell

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

Plato

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

Martin Seligman

There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

Max Lucado

Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

Maureen Dowd

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

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.

Sam Keen

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

Studs Terkel

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

Peter Thiel

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

Pierre Trudeau

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

Phyllis McGinley

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

Lewis Mumford

I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.

Larry Elder

Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.

Vanna Bonta

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

Tia Mowry

Optimism is a huge help when it comes to health.

Tony Kushner

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

Kent Beck

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Oscar Hammerstein II

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

Rachel Caine

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

Victor Cherbuliez

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

Rick Perlstein

In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.