Optimism Quotes - Page 16

• As for health, consider yourself well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Wells

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.363, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Way, Belief

  11 Copy quote

• Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is uninhibited by the thousands of considerations that always bedevil man in his progress. The hopes of the world rest on the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh outlook of the young.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Our World, Progress

  6 Copy quote

• When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.

  Ronald Reagan

  Home, Greatest Love, May

  Ronald Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.264, Humanix Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

  Edward Teller

  Guilty, Crime

  9 Copy quote

• Optimism is evidence-based.

  Cornel West

  Evidence

  4 Copy quote

• It's really fascinating. I've never spent time in a place where they lost the wars, so it was interesting and I didn't know much about the history of the country. I didn't know they were under communist rule until the nineties. It's this whole attitude of being defeated, and frowning on optimism and American way of thinking. If we were laughing, Hungarian kids would be like "You're so American."

  Evan Jones

  Country, Attitude, War

  Source: collider.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Shoes, Anxiety, Danger

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.148, Courier Corporation

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Play, Leader

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

  George Jean Nathan

  Dog, Stars, Spring

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Realist

  4 Copy quote

• Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

  Thomas Friedman

  Attitude, Strategy, Optimism And Hope

  24 Copy quote

• I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Species, Particular

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because of my life experience and because of my public life experience, I have the ability to lead this nation and to bring all people together and to lift up the cause of this nation so that we once again become a nation that comes from the heart and reconnect with our optimism to really create a nation that we can all be proud of.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Heart, People, Together

  Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. September 9, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Money managers have to account for their actions to their shareholders, which means they have an undue fear of underperformance. We invest only our own money. Our investments are driven by optimism, not fear.

  Richard Chandler

  Mean, Action, Investment

  4 Copy quote

• In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Believe, Communication

  33 Copy quote

• The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Secret, Has Beens

  9 Copy quote

• Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  14 Copy quote

• The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

  Denis Waitley

  Winning, Simple, Self

  6 Copy quote

• Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fool, Accepting

  10 Copy quote

• Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Secret, Reliance

  4 Copy quote

• Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

  Martha Stewart

  Business, Integrity, Work

  56 Copy quote

• A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Views, Might, Human Nature

  14 Copy quote

• Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

  Neil Gaiman

  World, Twins, Force

  4 Copy quote

• I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

  Elif Safak

  Believe, Government, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source