Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elon Musk

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Jonathan Swift

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Norman Vincent Peale

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

Edward Teller

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Orison Swett Marden

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

Michael J. Fox

Optimism is a cure for many things.

Mahatma Gandhi

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

John McEnroe

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

John Irving

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

John Hench

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

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.

John F. Kerry

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

My optimism for life carried through my work.

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.

Jim Leach

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

Oswald Spengler

Optimism is cowardice.

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.

Marian Keyes

Optimism can be relearnt.

Nelson Mandela

I approach every problem with optimism.

Noam Chomsky

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

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

Margery Allingham

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Michel de Montaigne

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

George Santayana

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

George Santayana

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

George Meyer

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

John F. Kennedy

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