Optimism Quotes

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
Bruce Springsteen

Fire, Between, Against

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
William Ralph Inge

Christian, System, Pessimist

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
Dave Eggers

Work, Busy, Same

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Sunrise, Two, Whatever

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson

Men, Hope, Live

Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
John Podhoretz

Him, Learned, American

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.
Dee Dee Myers

Time, Him, Talent

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
Doris Lessing

Writing, Story, Telling

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
Ron Fournier

America, Said, Obama

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
Robert Anton Wilson

Forward, Dread, Dogmatic

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
William Hague

Time, Hope, Government

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
Billy Connolly

Love, Music, Time

Optimism is the opium of the people.
Milan Kundera

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel

Hope, Put, Said

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Tom Hanks

Understand, Lack, Concept

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
Antonio Gramsci

Spirit, Pessimism

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
J. G. Ballard

Change, Great, Political

For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
Lucy Powell

Change, Politics, Different

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas M. Butler

Courage, True, Progress

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett

Used, Pessimism, Agreeable

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
Stephen Ambrose

War, Hard, Made

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
Fred G. Gosman

Love, Parenting, Focus

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
Anna Deavere Smith

Work, Money, Hard

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.
Paul Feig

Life, Humor, Great

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.
Wole Soyinka

Time, Long, Words

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!
Ariel Sharon

Forward, Long, Here

You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.
George Stephanopoulos

Confidence, Political, Real

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
Kevin Rudd

Future, Cannot, Second

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Patricia Cornwell

Success, Good, Health

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
Ben Bernanke

Good, Start, Whatever

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