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Quotes About Optimism

I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.
~ Hilda Solis
You have a lot of optimism when you are young.
~ Alec Baldwin
The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.
~ Martin O'Malley
History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.
~ Stephane Hessel
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.
~ Robert Dallek
The '60s were a time of great optimism and hope. There was a buzz - everybody could be successful.
~ Dave Clark
I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism.
~ Henry Sy
My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.
~ Brad Feld
I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
~ Mandy Patinkin
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
~ Toyo Ito
We are a nation with a powerful investment in the idea of our own fundamental innocence. Our can-do optimism and ingenuity are based on the faith that we are a decent, open, and generous people. This is our identity.
~ Shelby Steele
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.
~ Bibi Bourelly
We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.
~ Nancy Wilson
Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
~ Ben Bernanke
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
~ Tony Judt
Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
~ Steve Earle
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
~ John Wells
Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.
~ Pierce Brosnan
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
~ Ramez Naam
It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.
~ David Souter
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
~ Joan Blades
Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.
~ Jill Lepore
For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.
~ Sheri L. Dew