Optimistic Quotes - Page 11

• Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leadership, Running, Boss

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

  Eric Schmidt

  Children, People, Essentials

  "The future according to Mr Google". Interview with Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, People

  "Starbucks CEO: 2012 not cool beans" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 8, 2012.

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• An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Expectations, Confusion

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• At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ; be cheerful and optimistic. Above all, never lose your faith in the destiny of India. There is no power on earth which can keep India in bondage. India will be free and, that too, soon. JAl-HIND !

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Destiny, Temporary Defeat

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• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

  Henry Ford

  Leadership, Education, Wise

  "The Secret of Staying in Love". Book by John Powell, p. 85, 1990.

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• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.

  Bernard Beckett

  Fear, Years, Differences

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sacrifice, Needs, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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• In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Past, Night

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.2, Open Road Media

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• Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

  Johannes Brahms

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

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• Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.

  Daniel Goleman

  Stress, Men, Self

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.7, Bantam

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• Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

  Charles Dickens

  Real, Heart, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.256

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• I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

  Jimmy Page

  Music, Rocks, Jazz

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• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Thinking, Race

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else's, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me).

  Peter Cameron

  Clueless, Thinking, Opposites

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

  Warren Ellis

  Suicide, Bad Ass, World

  "Transmetropolitan". Comic book series by Warren Ellis, 1997–2002.

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• Optimism is the foundation of courage.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Life, Appreciation, Courage

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• THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon. The original Perseus was one of the only heros in the greek myths who got a happy ending. The others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods. My mom hoped i would inherit Perseus's luck. Judging by how my life was going so far, i wasn't too optimistic.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Hero, Son

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• Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

  Louis Mann

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• You decide for yourself when it will hurt.

  Per Petterson

  Hurt

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• My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

  Anne Rice

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 29, 2010

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• All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mistake, Medicine, People

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

  William Faulkner

  Determination, Suffering, Ifs

  William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

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