Optimistic Quotes - Page 28

• In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

  Jesse Michaels

  Believe, Redemption, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm eternally optimistic about the future. I believe that if we are committed towards it and if we continue to educate people and get the whole world community to implement green features and aspects in not just the built environment not just in their lifestyles but in their businesses in their industries then we're heading towards a green future.

  Ken Yeang

  Believe, People, Community

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• Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Impact, Years

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• I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.

  Robert Kenner

  Thinking, Government, Driven

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.

  Mike Leigh

  Destroying, Planets, I Can

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still do them just as well. That's very important to success - just to have a positive outlook. I know it's not easy to do that.

  Jim Abbott

  Believe, Thinking, Optimism

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Inspiration, Sticks, Tough

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• Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

  Robin Roberts

  Thinking, Order, Tough Times

  Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers (2014). “Everybody's Got Something”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• 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 you have a prosperous, rational society in Turkey that can interact with Europe and the West, I don't really care what kind of institutional arrangement you have. The point to make about Turkey and Europe is that it's a very long, drawn-out process. What's important is that the process not be stopped, that Turkey and Europe evolve in the right direction, on a path of convergence. Convergence is the name of the game.

  Andrew Mango

  Long, Democracy, Important

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• As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.

  Robert D. Maurer

  Loss, Clear Goals, Essence

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• Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

  Dana Reeve

  Thinking, Luck, Really Pretty

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• Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

  Bernard Williams

  Optimism, Emptiness, Someday

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• Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

  Julia Ward Howe

  Thinking, Views, Best Things

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• No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

  Robert Mueller

  Optimism, Able, Pessimism

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• The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

  Sean O Faolain

  Gay, Kind, Pessimist

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• So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Trying, Looks, Sides

  P. G. Wodehouse (1966). “Uncle Dynamite”, Penguin Group USA

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• What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?

  Jennifer James

  Children, Views, Small Acts

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Thinking, Literature, Dangerous

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  If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.

  Dean Martin

  Beautiful, Ifs

  Song: Ain't That A Kick In The Head

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• It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

  Mark Twain

  Lovely, Disposition, Brushes

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.62, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

  Mark Twain

  Play, Backyards, Hell

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Noble, Phrases

  Storm Jameson (1966). “The Early Life of Stephen Hind”

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• It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

  Margery Allingham

  Disappointment, Spring, Agony

  Margery Allingham (1943). “The Galantrys”

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• I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

  Kevin Cramer

  Ideas, Conservative, Joyful

  "New House members of 113th Congress: A-B-C". POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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