Top 1200 Being Optimistic Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you of the fact that before May 2015 there was no overall European agenda on immigration. Nothing, zero. It wasn't until after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean that, in response to an Italian initiative, (Europe) began thinking about setting policies for the registration of refugees, their distribution or their deportation.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

My parents taught me to be optimistic and independent. They made me feel that I could do anything I set my mind to, which has really helped me. They didn't make allowances for me because of my height. I had to do everything my brother and sister had to do, including raising our animal menagerie that included cows and chickens.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl.

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

So being a senior player, being a goalkeeper, being a team member, I think saving the ball is my first main priority.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher things people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.

I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

To me, being a woman in 2016 means having a voice, being unique, being true to yourself, and finding a way to be of service.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Being an Orlando Magic dancer was definitely one of the most exciting times of my life. Being on the team was really like being in a sisterhood.

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it's being famous for being brilliant at something.

I'm eternally optimistic about the future. I believe that if we are committed towards it and if we continue to educate people and get the whole world community to implement green features and aspects in not just the built environment not just in their lifestyles but in their businesses in their industries then we're heading towards a green future.

When I think of my version of a role model, it's not about being the perfect Samaritan; it's just being out there and being honest and happily imperfect.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.

I know that being in the entertainment business... my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot and I wasn't really present.

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

Part of what makes me most optimistic is if you look at the attitudes of young people. Across the board, young people are much more comfortable with respecting differences. They are much more comfortable with diversity.

If we approach other people understanding our own value, being confident in who we are, being centered and grounded, it's actually easier for us to connect with them because we can listen more deeply and we can express ourselves more authentically without fear of being judged or not being enough.

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.

There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise.

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.

I'm somebody who looks at things through the lens of being a wife and being a mother and being a United States Marine.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!