Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orison Swett Marden

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

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.

Rachel Caine

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

Tony Kushner

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

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.

Stephen Fry

If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Simon Sinek

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

Simon Sinek

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

Rem Koolhaas

Find optimism in the inevitable

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.

Kent Beck

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

Oswald Spengler

Optimism is cowardice.

Oscar Hammerstein II

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

Sonia Sotomayor

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Tim Brown

Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.

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

Vanna Bonta

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

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.

Thomas Hood

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

Robert Anton Wilson

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

Robert Anton Wilson

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

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.

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.

Tia Mowry

Optimism is a huge help when it comes to health.

Samuel Johnson

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.