Optimism Quotes

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

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

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

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

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

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

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

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

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

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.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

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

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.