Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

Mark Twain

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Mark Twain

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

Mark Twain

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Nicki Minaj

I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic

P. G. Wodehouse

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

Paul Begala

I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.

Martha Beck

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Marianne Williamson

It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.

Marilyn Manson

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

Norah O'Donnell

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

Miguel de Cervantes

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Edward de Bono

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

Eckhart Tolle

I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

John F. Kennedy

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

Thom Yorke

Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.

Terry Eagleton

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

Simon Hoggart

Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.

Ross Perot

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

Rush Limbaugh

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

Randy Schekman

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

Robert Mueller

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

Richard Jefferson

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

Voltaire

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

Voltaire

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Voltaire

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Voltaire

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Voltaire

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

William S. Burroughs

The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

William McDonough

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

William James

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

William Foege

Finally, develop tenacity and an optimistic outlook. It doesn't mean that everything will always work out or that you won't suffer. But pessimism seems to be designed to force you to suffer before the fact!

Sara Blakely

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.