Optimist Quotes - Page 2

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

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

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Work at being a humble person.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.