Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

What you must do, do cheerfully.

Hugh MacDiarmid

In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

Jasper Fforde

I wished I could share my own optimism.

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.

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

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.

John F. Kennedy

Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

Jonathan Kellerman

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

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.

Jim Leach

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Joseph Stiglitz

I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand the depths of the problem afterwards, I found a little bit surprising.

Karl Popper

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

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.

Oswald Spengler

Optimism is cowardice.

Margery Allingham

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Noam Chomsky

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Marian Keyes

Optimism can be relearnt.

Nelson Mandela

I approach every problem with optimism.

Olivia Wilde

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

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

Hyman Rickover

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

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.

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.

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