Quotes About Optimism

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.'

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

We always had a lot of optimism for this game, New World.' Customers really liked it; it tested really well.

Walk on a rainbow trail walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon the air, sent his voice across the seas, divided the indivisible, and penetrated the impenetrable. Audacious, optimistic, and indefatigable, he might even forget God altogether, and raise his limitless towers like altars to none other than himself.

Here is a world without joy and without hope. But it does not frighten me because I do not believe it.

Confidence is like going after Moby Dick with a rowboat, a harpoon and a jar of tartar sauce.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

even if everything that happens to me isn't good, God can still bring good out of everything.

The Old Man just claimed that the stature of the man was measured by how much he could smile when fate was beating him over the head with a stick.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.

Another student, Lorie Tarshis, wrote: 'And finally what Keynes supplied was hope: hope that prosperity could be restored and maintained without the support of prison camps, executions and bestial interrogations….

Like all shopkeepers, they are deep-down optimists. They have to be, because every morning they unlock the doors to their stores, turn on the lights, prepare for the day, and wait for people to walk in and hand them money.

Though everything will seem dark to you now, remember that even behind the darkest clouds of night there shines the moon of dawn.

This book seeks to foster that progress by identifying a place of reconciliation between the two poles outlined in the exchange between Paul Mason (whose optimism we relish) and Nigel Pollitt (whose realism we value) within a society that has already changed radically. We

I]f it be any part of religion to believe that man was made by a good Being, it is more consistent with that faith to believe, that this Being gave all human faculties that they might be cultivated and unfolded, not rooted out and consumed, and that he takes delight in every nearer approach made by his creatures to the ideal conception embodied in them, every increase in any of their capabilities of comprehension, of action, or of enjoyment.

We are not blank slates, as some behaviorists once imagined. We are organisms whose more egregious tendencies can be greatly, if arduously, subdued. And a primary reason for this tenuous optimism is the abject flexibility with which status is sought. We will do almost anything for respect, including not act like animals.

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