Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

Alana Stewart

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

Jared Diamond

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

Arthur C. Clarke

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

Aung San Suu Kyi

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

Daniel Goleman

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.

Bob Dole

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

Ludwig von Mises

The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

Dee Bradley Baker

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

Deana Carter

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Bruce Kent

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

Elie Wiesel

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

Tim Russert

We're an optimistic people, but something is amiss. People feel it, and I think it partly revolves around the war.

Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Eddie Vedder

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

Everything remains challenging in telecom. I'm not optimistic in the near-term.

Everything remains challenging in telecom, ... I'm not optimistic in the near-term.

Paul Allen

As I said before, I am optimistic about that.

At this point, I'm cautiously optimistic and we'll see what happens.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

We are very, very optimistic about Connecticut, particularly Bristol.

Sumner Redstone

We are very optimistic on the rest of the year.

We are cautiously optimistic that we can secure more MK services in the future.

We're very optimistic that it will be, but you have to go through the process.

Don Ward

Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.

Dale Carnegie

Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can lead to poor decisions and invites people to take advantage of you. Instead, be a rational optimist who takes the good with the bad, in hopes of the good ultimately outweighing the bad, and with the understanding that being pessimistic about everything accomplishes nothing. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best - the former makes you sensible, and the latter makes you an optimist.

Adam Savage

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

Alberto Gonzales

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.

Drew Barrymore

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.