Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry S Truman

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties

Abraham Lincoln

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic.

Christopher Walken

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Daniel Kahneman

People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

Albert Camus

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Sylvester Stallone

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

Ross Perot

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

Rush Limbaugh

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

Susan Cheever

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Steve Jobs

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Steven Soderbergh

The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.

Tom Stoppard

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Tom Hanks

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Saku Koivu

I'm confident and really optimistic.

Thomas Friedman

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

Viggo Mortensen

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

Viggo Mortensen

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Sutton Foster

I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life, I try not to take anything too seriously, I try to and I do find a ton of joy and happiness in my life and I think that helps you stay youthful.

Steve Tisch

I would say Im an optimist by nature.

Swami Vivekananda

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

Ray Bradbury

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Sherrod Brown

I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

Norah O'Donnell

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so

John Templeton

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

John Templeton

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

John Templeton

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

John Templeton

If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making profits they will actually lose money, but you will only lose a dollar or so a share at most. Then others will be mediocre performers. But the remaining big winners will go up and produce fabulous results and also ensure a good overall result.

John Templeton

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

John Templeton

How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.

Ted Cruz

I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside of Washington on immigration. There's overwhelming bipartisan agreement, number one, that we need to secure the borders. That we need to finally do something to stop illegal immigration.

Michael Bloomberg

We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.