Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aimee McPherson

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!

Antonio Banderas

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

Arthur C. Brooks

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. We [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

Benjamin Graham

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic,

Brian Tracy

The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

Brian Tracy

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.

Jared Diamond

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

Tim Russert

We're an optimistic people, but something is amiss. People feel it, and I think it partly revolves around the war.

Andrew Zimbalist

I think the press has been sucked in by the rhetoric of brinkmanship. I've been optimistic all along.

We're pretty optimistic that we can reach some sort of partnership.

We're optimistic that we'll restore the rest of them tomorrow.

We're optimistic that we'll get back on track.

We're optimistic that there's going to be a peaceful outcome to all this.

We're optimistic and businesslike. We're working together well.

I think it's partly the war. Pink is very sweet, childish, optimistic color.

People are getting more optimistic that we have seen the bottoming of the economy.

Stephen is progressing well. We are optimistic about his prospects for the weekend.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

Carl Rogers

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

You can also be pessimistic and worry that there will be so many disagreements that nothing will come of it. Let us remain optimistic in that regard for the time being.

I was really optimistic going into practice. I thought we were a little more comfortable at the plate today.

I am relatively optimistic that by the end of the day there will be statements that we have substantive agreements.

Chetan Bhagat

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

Chaka Fattah

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.

Bob Brown

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

I don't have any reason to be optimistic here.

Brandon Sanderson

Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

Adam Savage

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Drew Barrymore

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Don Ward

Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.