Optimism Quotes

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.

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

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.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

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.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

Patience is the key to content.

There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

Optimism is lack of information.

I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it.

I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.

Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

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

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.