Top 100 Be Optimistic Quotes
#1. The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a brighter, more optimistic future. We may have to go through some difficult times to get there, but get there we will.
Theresa May
#3. The more optimistic you can be the more resilient you will be to whatever challenges life throws at you.
Auliq Ice
#4. In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.
Henry Sy
#5. No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.
Henry Rollins
#6. When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it ... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This temptation must be resisted; tax considerations aside, when a security reaches full valuation, there is no longer a reason to own it.
Seth Klarman
#8. The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#9. Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.
John Grisham
#10. She was like me; too wounded to be blindly optimistic anymore.
Brenda Rothert
#11. One of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.
Kristin Hunter
#12. The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
Pete Seeger
#13. This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime. Even if it seems hopeless now, never give up. Offer a positive vision, with enthusiasm and joy, and an optimistic outlook.
Dalai Lama
#14. We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
Lucy Powell
#15. I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?
Jose Saramago
#16. I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.
Luis De Guindos
#17. I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.
Bruce Kent
#18. If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
Hazel Henderson
#19. There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
Jerry Jeff Walker
#20. Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the future. My only other advice is to cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey, as I have done this summer.
Jack Layton
#21. Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.
Alana Stewart
#22. I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
Carlos Ghosn
#23. I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
Nicholas Hoult
#24. Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud?
Maira Kalman
#25. I would be more optimistic but I find doing so would be like walking into a room with no windows and turning out the light. If
Onision
#26. 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
#27. I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.
Jacqueline Woodson
#28. I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.
Richard Branson
#29. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception.
Liz Tuccillo
#30. I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.
Emily Mortimer
#31. Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.
Benjamin Franklin
#32. Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is more good than bad in the sum of us and our workings.
Norman Mailer
#33. I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.
Eliza Coupe
#34. Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God.
M. Russell Ballard
#35. It's not easy to be optimistic and hopeful after you come to know and love some of the young victims of sexual abuse, violence, poverty, neglect, drugs, and rape. It's taking me a while to climb out of this hatred, this noxious cynicism. I'm doing my best.
M.T. Johnson
#36. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#38. Optimism ... is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
Charlie Pierce
#39. I had to overcome many things, many people telling me no. If you want it, and you believe in it, you have to do it. And I know it's silly, and I know I'm kind of irrationally optimistic, but you have to be and you can't really have another plan, because you're going to fall back on it.
Crystal Reed
#40. Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#42. I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
Palmer Luckey
#43. To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
Rachel Cusk
#44. It turns out, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.
Hank Green
#45. Love like this wasn't supposed to be missed, even for those of us that had never realized it was out there. Look at me being all optimistic and shit.
Jay Crownover
#46. Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.
Carolyn Haywood
#47. Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
Valerie Jarrett
#49. Why is it always easier to be optimistic about somebody else's worries?" Adrian said with a bitter laugh.
Cinda Williams Chima
#50. On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.
Helen Caldicott
#52. In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.
Logan Green
#53. There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
Bobby Ghosh
#54. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.
Roy Bennett
#55. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
#56. 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
#57. Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
Brandon Sanderson
#58. I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
Nader Al-Masri
#59. I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
Damon Albarn
#61. All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more 'natural' and 'ingrained' they will become. With time they will be part of you, and you will have made yourself into an altogether different person.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#62. I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock ... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
Jimmy Page
#63. You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.
Norah O'Donnell
#64. The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?'
John Templeton
#65. I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.
J.K. Rowling
#66. I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.
Brad Listi
#67. Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine.
Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.
Jonathan Heatt
#69. I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
Nick Harkaway
#70. 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.
Christian D. Larson
#71. Be thankful for the efforts of people who worked hard to get you where you are; you should not take it for granted and treat them with indifference.
Roy T. Bennett
#72. People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.
Daniel Goleman
#73. Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.
Henry Rollins
#74. There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.
Mary Tyler Moore
#75. 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.
William Carlos Williams
#76. I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#77. If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.
Peter Thiel
#78. I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
Jon Anderson
#79. Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
Colin Powell
#80. I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.
Graeme Souness
#81. Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.
Rhys Darby
#82. Leo will be coming with us," Emma offered, trying to sound optimistic. "He's a downsider." "I'm not sure that's exactly his field of expertise," said Claire honestly, trying to picture Leo as a medtech. He didn't care for hydraulic systems, he'd said.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#83. My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.
Greg Rusedski
#84. The world may be against us, but this love we have is enough to put this world beneath us.
Jayson Engay
#85. I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
Ofra Haza
#86. Of course the fall semester didn't start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I'd be alive when it rolled around.
Jenna Black
#87. I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.
Etgar Keret
#88. When you are enthusiastic and optimistic with faith, nothing will be impossible for you to achieve.
Debasish Mridha
#89. If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#90. Forgive yourself for every wrongdoing.
Forgive others without judging.
Hug others with great love and care.
Be optimistic and be ready to share.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.
Daniel Kahneman
#92. I assure you I am as optimistic as a pessimist can be."-Fletcher
Tim McGiven
#93. I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.
Eric Whitacre
#94. My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton
#95. Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
Saad Hariri
#96. All they wanted of me was one belch of affirmation and I'd bellow it out loud. Yes! Yes! YES! That was all anyone wanted of us, that we should be heard and not seen, and then heard only in one big optimistic chorus of yassuh, yassuh, yassuh!
Ralph Ellison
#97. My view is that the U.S. market will eventually join the emerging markets on the downside because if you take a bearish view about emerging economies, you cannot be too optimistic about the U.S. because for many U.S. corporations, 50 percent or more of their profits come from emerging economies.
Marc Faber
#98. Leadership is the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are pessimistic.
George T. Cummings
#99. If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
Martin Seligman
#100. It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.
Martin Jacques
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