Optimism Quotes

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.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

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

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.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Optimism is the key.

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.

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.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

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.

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.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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.

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.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

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

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

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

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

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.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

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