Top 912 Optimism Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.
You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.
I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.
The spirit of hope and optimism is always there, and that's what I think characterizes Star Trek' in such a big way.
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.
I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.
L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism
Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.
Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.
For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.
The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions
I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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.
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.
I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism.
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.
I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.
You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.
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.
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today
Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.
Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.
The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.
I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.
I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark.
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.
My son Ishaan's passion for movies and his exposure to world cinema infuses me with optimism.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.