Optimism Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 for life carried through my work.

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.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

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.

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

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.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

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

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

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