Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

optimism is a disease

Robert Louis Stevenson

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Sarah Dessen

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Samuel Johnson

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

John Hench

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.

John F. Kerry

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

John Dyer

My optimism for life carried through my work.

Ron Conway

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

Ron Chernow

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

Tyler Hoechlin

I was trying to be an entrepreneur at seven years old.

Robert Reed

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

Vivek Wadhwa

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

Van Jones

I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.

Warren Farrell

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

Klaus Schwab

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.

Nancy Lublin

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

Woodrow Wilson

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

Will Durant

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Tucker Carlson

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Samuel Beckett

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

U Thant

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

Roger Ebert

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

Wilma Mankiller

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

Twyla Tharp

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

William Allen White

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.