Quotes About Optimism

Mark Zuckerberg is an optimist, whereas Elon Musk and Bill Gates are very much the opposite, as was the late Stephen Hawking.

By just about every measure, America is better, and the world is better, than it was fifty years ago, thirty years ago, or even ten years ago.

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling.

The Rational Optimist: How

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Most of us proceed with good intentions. We try our best. Yet so often we fail ourselves and others. What else can we do but try again? It's the only option open to us. Trying is the way we get through the day.

With regard to women's rights and sexual-minority rights, and, of course, in particular when it came to the issue of racism, everything was presented as though it had never been worse at the point at which it had never been better.

future that had less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether.

Andrew Grenville's tailored polling reveals Cascadians tend to be less trusting of religion and more tolerant of marijuana (see above) and homosexual relationships than others across the continent. Even though Cascadians' individualism could harm their chances of building strong communities, Grenville believes that their live-and-let-live attitude, optimism and self-responsibility could create a culture that serves as a beacon to the planet.

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

Surround yourself with people who are positive and who guard against negative talk.

It took more than science to make hope real.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Success is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.