Top 100 Be Optimistic Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.
Bruce Kent
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.
Eliza Coupe
#10. 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
#11. 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
#13. To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
Rachel Cusk
#14. It turns out, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.
Hank Green
#15. 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
#17. Why is it always easier to be optimistic about somebody else's worries?" Adrian said with a bitter laugh.
Cinda Williams Chima
#18. 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
#20. 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
#22. I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#23. I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
Jon Anderson
#24. Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
Colin Powell
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.
Barbara Demick
#30. My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.
Bob Seger
#31. Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic.
Emma Straub
#32. It was a lot easier to be optimistic about equality when you didn't have to confront the Neanderthals on a daily basis. When you could imagine that people were actually changing their minds because they'd stopped groping secretaries at the photocopier.
Val McDermid
#33. Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
Bob Dole
#34. Fun, that's the word I keep on using. That's the word I worry about when other writer's scripts get too dark. Optimistic. Fun. And to be optimistic and have fun there's got to be a darkness there. I think that's a very British attitude.
Russell T. Davies
#35. Be optimistic and don't ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially
Sunday Adelaja
#36. To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All
Martin Suarez
#37. You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.
Nathan Crowley
#38. An older generation, chastened by one depression, is afraid to be optimistic; and a younger generation, accustomed to security, is inexperienced at being pessimistic.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#39. I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.
Gwenda Bond
#40. When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
John Lewis
#41. To be optimistic is NOT a blind sentiment in regard to the reality of life; but a hopeful view for the present moment
Quetzal
#42. You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.
Frank Gehry
#43. Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.
Debasish Mridha
#44. To be Russian was to be pessimistic; to be Soviet was to be optimistic.
Julian Barnes
#45. I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
John Lewis
#46. The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.
Sigmund Freud
#47. I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.
Nick Cannon
#48. Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.
Bill Bryson
#49. It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.
Vance Havner
#50. The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
David Attenborough
#51. Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
Jon Gordon
#53. In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic.
Lionel Suggs
#54. If I had learned one thing in life, it was that pessimism hurt only the ones that could not and did not want to be optimistic. -Alexis Summers
K.M. Golland
#55. My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.
Oscar De La Renta
#56. We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.
Rush Limbaugh
#57. I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
Yanis Varoufakis
#58. You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.
Rhonda Byrne
#59. I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
Patrick Marber
#60. Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
Ira Glass
#61. It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.
Tupac Shakur
#63. You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. Always be optimistic. Always be positive! And ignore those who aren't, because they're obviously confused, and out of touch with light.
Frederick Lenz
#64. I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#65. Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.
Jacob M. Appel
#66. Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.
Richard Flanagan
#67. As long as you as an individual ... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
Tom Hanks
#69. It's hard. 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. It's intoxicatingly liberating.
Liz Tuccillo
#70. Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.
Dana Reeve
#72. Sonya, as a scientist, it's never just about the logistics of life. One must always be optimistic, or else you'll never discover or learn anything new. Though of course, you might also find that such a mentality should never be restricted to such an occupation as mine.
Lauren Lola
#73. We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.
Michael Bloomberg
#74. But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
John Lewis
#75. It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
Daniel Kahneman
#76. I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
Fay Vincent
#77. 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
#79. The more optimistic you can be the more resilient you will be to whatever challenges life throws at you.
Auliq Ice
#80. No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.
Henry Rollins
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.
John Grisham
#84. She was like me; too wounded to be blindly optimistic anymore.
Brenda Rothert
#85. 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
#86. The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
Pete Seeger
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.
Jacqueline Woodson
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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