Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Seligman

Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Martin Seligman

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

Martin Seligman

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

John Wooden

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

Marianne Williamson

It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.

Marilyn Manson

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

Michael Gove

I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.

Martin Sorrell

One of the reasons why they are optimistic is that there is more competition. Red Bull has become more competitive, the races have become more attractive - and that is what fans want!

Martin Sorrell

Monaco was my first race of the season and I spoke with a number of people and all seemed to be very optimistic.

Lydia Lunch

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

Aimee McPherson

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!

I am relatively optimistic that by the end of the day there will be statements that we have substantive agreements.

Rodrigo Rato

I find these views optimistic to the point of willful blindness.

Jeff Koons

I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

James Buchan

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

Hillary Clinton

I think that's why I'm so well-suited to this time, because I think the values reflect really profound American values, and I think my agenda would be the best way to really get Americans once again to feel more confident and more optimistic about our future and deliver results, which I think is what it's about.

Hillary Clinton

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Esther Hicks

That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.

Esther Hicks

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Fay Vincent

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

Eugene O'Neill

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

George W. Bush

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

Felix Adler

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.

Henry Miller

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

Isabel Allende

I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.

Irving Kristol

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

Jeannette Walls

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Jennifer James

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

Jeff Cooper

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

Jeff Bezos

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

George Saunders

I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

Winston Churchill

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else

Frederick Wiseman

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.