Optimism Quotes - Page 25

I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?

I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil.

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.

I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.

Optimism is evidence-based.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realizations. ... Dreams go out and fulfill themselves; wishes need only to be articulated.

I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.

Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.

Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner.

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.