Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...]… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
You can hope, because it is contagious. You can be optimistic because it breeds action. You can have faith and belief because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent,… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic about Turkey's prospects for reaching the E.U.'s standards of development, governance, and democracy, whether inside or outside the E.U. Provided… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“And I can’t help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic. We… — John Green Copy Share Image
I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“Never blame circumstances for your condition, you yourself are responsible for what you go through. If someone's treating you bad, its your… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Everything's gonna be fine. Stay optimistic. If there's dark clouds coming, they'll leave again. They always do. The world is round. Everything… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much easier for… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try… — Melissa Benoist Copy Share Image
I want to win. [...] We're not going on win by doing what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do each and every… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans),… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still… — Jim Abbott Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
We're also optimistic about the future, but only if we do a few things.And that's a big difference in this campaign between… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Hope The optimistic side of me Likes to dream That rainbows follow rain There’s a little girl I used to know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
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