I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“They will also tell you how far along we are along the depletion curve; the optimists among them will even claim that… — Dmitry Orlov Copy Share Image
The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“We try to show that the well-ordered society of justice as fairness is indeed possible according to our nature and those requirements.… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
“Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“Optimist" is a word which here refers to a person, such as Phil, who thinks hopeful and pleasant thoughts about nearly everything.… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur... is a person of action, one who possesses an unnatural overload of two attributes: optimism and determination. Because entrepreneurs are… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“But everything takes a different shape when we pass from abstractions to reality. In the former, everything must be subject to optimism,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
You deserve a day where worries don't get in the way of anything. A day where... even if some people are insensitive… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being. Youre able to keep your eyes open,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The risk is that you've got a vast majority of the electorate saying that they believe the country is going seriously in… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
“But I promise you, you guys can do it. In four days you'll be the happiest person Earth has ever seen. You'll… — Johan Harstad Copy Share Image
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Part of what I always loved about being on the mountain was the feeling that anything could happen. I would stand there… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
“Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "I can't remember. Which?" "Do you know what those words mean?" "Not really." "An optimist… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Rise from those dumps of depression! Bury those personal regrets deep inside! Focus on self-healing, self-love Only trust can keep you alive.… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
If you have lived with the fear of failure all your life, you tend to erect a window of risk aversion. In… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of… — Seth Copy Share Image
“However, perhaps the most insidious aspect of the New Age movement is what I call the Optimism Gestapo, or those who regulate… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“Can the West regain its optimism? If the answer is no – and most of the portents are skewing the wrong way… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“She knew by some sure instinct that when you had come right up against it, as Jeff had, you had no use… — Elswyth Thane Copy Share Image
“Medicinal Spirit, Inside Mirror Therapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels, No one knows how to upscale another,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love!… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.” quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/feb/ta-nehisi-coates-733_ability_grew-up-in-hawaii-that-gave-barack-obama_75931.png)
