Optimism Quotes - page 12

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important! (Terry Jones)
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. View quote
Margaret Atwood
There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped. View quote
Gloria Estefan
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism, of physiological or pathological origin... that makes our ideas. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
We are supposedly a country at war, but we're all going about watching American Idol and having not all that different a time than if we weren't at war. I observe the weird juxtaposition of reading the newspaper and then tuning into American Idol and getting really upset when Constantine gets voted off and then wondering where my head was at. But in a way, that's also the salvation of the country, our level of optimism. View quote
Paul Weitz
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now. View quote
Paul Ryan
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. View quote
Lucille Ball
Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying. View quote
John Carney
Buster survives tornados, waterfalls, avalanches of boulders, and falls from great heights, and never pauses to take a bow: He has his eye on his goal. And his movies, seen as a group, are like a sustained act of optimism in the face of adversity. View quote
Roger Ebert
What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down. (Rudy Giuliani)
Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil... Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge. View quote
Richard Weaver
What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. View quote
Hermann Hesse
I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money. View quote
Anna Deavere Smith
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Regardless of their origins, his characters are more saints than sinners. Good predominates over evil and optimism over despair. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
I tend to be an optimist about human nature but a political pessimist...I think we're living in very, very scary times and we have to find ways of looking squarely at it and finding reasons for optimism. View quote
Kamila Shamsie
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way. View quote
Nhat Hanh
We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims. (Bill Frist)
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world. View quote
Michael Chabon
I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
I'm honoured by the confidence the council has shown in me as well as my team and Jack Layton. I clearly have big shoes to fill, but I'm also fortunate to be standing on such a solid foundation.Jack Layton has spent eight years building this New Democrat movement for a better Canada, eight years building a team that is ready to tackle any circumstance with hope and optimism. That's exactly what you can expect from us in the coming weeks. View quote
Nycole Turmel