Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeannette Walls

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Jennifer James

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

Jeff Cooper

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

Jeff Bezos

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

George Saunders

I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

Eoin Colfer

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Elon Musk

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

Hillary Clinton

I think that's why I'm so well-suited to this time, because I think the values reflect really profound American values, and I think my agenda would be the best way to really get Americans once again to feel more confident and more optimistic about our future and deliver results, which I think is what it's about.

Hillary Clinton

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Esther Hicks

That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.

Esther Hicks

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Harold Wilson

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Gough Whitlam

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

Winston Churchill

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else

Frederick Wiseman

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

Freeman Dyson

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

George W. Bush

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

Felix Adler

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.

Fay Vincent

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

Eugene O'Neill

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

I'm possibly more optimistic than I was the first time.

I'm probably the most optimistic person in the country, ... The only way for me to go is up.

Jacques Chirac

I'm optimistic we'll get the resolution vote tomorrow, I'll put it to you that way.

Henry Miller

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

Harry S Truman

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties

They're optimistic about the second half, and I think that's reasonable.

Janet Fitch

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Jane Roberts

In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

Joel Coen

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.

Cassandra Clare

Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.

Mike Royko

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Greg Rusedski

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Buzz Aldrin

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.