Famous Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't be more optimistic than I am now. I am real excited, and I feel I have something to prove.

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.

Isabel Allende

I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.

Irving Kristol

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

Harry A. Blackmun

I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.

Guy Pearce

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

Graeme Base

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.

Gwen Ifill

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

I'm very optimistic on the long bond. The fundamentals are there and the technical underpinnings are still positive.

I'm trying to be optimistic but it's hard.

I'm cautiously optimistic that it will work out well for the industry.

I'm an optimistic person. I think about it, but I'm not paralyzed by fear.

Andre Agassi

I really, really want to. I plan on it. I'm optimistic about it.

He's optimistic about his participation at the World Cup.

Jack Layton

So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

Mark Shapiro

It's not done yet, but I'm optimistic that we can get it done.

John Fowles

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

John F. Kennedy

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

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.

Philippe Falardeau

I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.

Pete Seeger

The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

Peter Mandelson

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

George MacDonald

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

Emily Mortimer

I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.

Joe Biden

I always kid the president in different circumstances. Mr. President, a country's never going to be more optimistic than the president.

Linus Pauling

Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

Linus Torvalds

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

Lewis Black

I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.