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Quotes About Optimism

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
~ H. G. Wells
I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.
~ John Travolta
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
~ Thomas A. Edison
In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.
~ Mao Zedong
Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have seen the future, and it works.
~ Lincoln Steffens
I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.
~ Nicole Kidman
Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.
~ Mary Engelbreit
May today be filled With bright hopes for the future And happy memories of the past
~ John Walter Bratton
The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.
~ C.P. Cavafy
Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.
~ John Denver
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
~ Balthazar Getty
I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.
~ Lu Xun
Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
~ Paul Harvey
The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
~ Pete Seeger
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
~ Paul Gauguin
I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.
~ Kenny Rogers
The future is not really the future. It's just a present that looks good.
~ Steven Heller
The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.
~ Michael Milken
So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself.
~ John Elkington
Our Futures are Formed by the Thoughts we Hold Most Often.
~ Wayne Dyer
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.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi