Optimistic Quotes

781 quotes by 587 authors

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. — Renata Adler
I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been. — Greg LeMond
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a… — Al Gore
There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic. — Ken MacLeod
If stocks are optimistic, then so am I. — Lawrence Kudlow
Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to… — Homer Hickam
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that… — Tobias Wolff
Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to… — Jonathan Carroll
Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic… — M. Russell Ballard
Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier… — Peter Thiel
And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of the young people… — Peter Brotzmann
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over… — Roderick Haig-Brown
Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive. — Patti Smith
I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to… — Ofra Haza
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic. — Gough Whitlam
I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see… — Joe Biden
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic, — Benjamin Graham
We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors. — David Bromstad
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. — Thomas J. Sargent

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