Optimism Quotes

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

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

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

Optimism is the key.

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.