Optimism Quotes

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Optimism is the key.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun.

My optimism for life carried through my work.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

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.

Optimism can be relearnt.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

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.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

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.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.