Future Optimism Quotes

#1. Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For all this, however, leadership matters; so do the institutional structures and the system of political governance.

Patrick Mendis

#2. Everything real is in the present moment. Only here can we find happiness and harmony, feel alive and do something that will change our future. Only here can we be with the people we love, enjoy the things we like and see beautiful places.

Lidiya K.

#3. We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims.

Bill Frist

#4. You have to open up to the world and learn optimism ... Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Jennifer Crusie

#5. I think that the message I have of optimism and hope about Britain's bright future outside the European Union is shared by many Conservative members and voters - indeed by a majority of the country.

Michael Gove

#6. Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Cesar Pelli

#7. The definition of the future is today

ABC

#8. Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

Noam Chomsky

#9. Don't get me wrong - I was not a Nazi, and in my eyes Hitler seemed like some absurd character in an operetta. But, it would have been almost impossible not to be infected by the optimism about the future, which was rife among ordinary people in Hamburg. - Henrik Vanger

Stieg Larsson

#10. I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

H.W. Brands

#11. Your future will be determined not by your education or bank account, but by your optimism and attitude.

Debasish Mridha

#12. The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Mitch Daniels

#13. We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

Peter Thiel

#14. We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;

David Mitchell

#16. Sure my rose-colored glasses don't let me see the world for what it is NOW but what they allow is the chance to see what the world would look like if people cared enough to plant more roses

Matthew Goldfinger

#17. I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

Arthur C. Clarke

#18. With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.

Bernard L. Schwartz

#19. However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones - only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments.

Daniel Nettle

#20. Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

Karl Popper

#21. If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#22. My wish for the community is a great deal of confidence, optimism, and pride. Together we can create a great future for this community.

Debasish Mridha

#23. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.

Ronald Reagan

#24. Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

Martin Seligman

#25. Actually, we chose the name Sun Cellular because we believe the name 'Sun' is bright, forward-looking and optimistic. It is my sincere hope that the whole Philippines will share our positive outlook, optimism and faith in the country's future.

John Gokongwei

#26. Something old represents continuity. Something new offers optimism for the future. Something borrowed symbolizes borrowed happiness. And something blue stands for purity, love, and fidelity.

M. Clarke

#27. I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.

Eskinder Nega

#28. Hope without a strategy doesn't generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won't follow you if they don't believe you can get to where you say you're going.

Seth

#29. When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even

Al Gore

#30. A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

Victor Cherbuliez

#31. 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

#32. A great future awaits you. However, you have to divorce your past and get hooked for a better life. Embrace the great future ahead with all optimism!

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.

David Warlick

#34. We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'

Peter Thiel

#36. Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward

Benny Bellamacina

#37. When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!

Oprah Winfrey

#38. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.

Helen Fielding

#39. Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

Dan Miller

#40. Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans.

Rebecca Solnit

#41. The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#42. If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.

Dorothy Rowe

#43. A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future

David Mas Masumoto

#44. Today we confront the future with optimism from a founded hope for the Iraqi people - in freedom

Jose Maria Aznar

#45. We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

James Redfield

#46. But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

Linda Lingle

#47. These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present. The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries

Stanislaw Lem

#48. It is a signal feature of depression that, in times of trouble, sensible ideas, memories of good times, and optimism for the future all recede into blackness.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#49. No matter how much you try, you cannot change the future. You cannot change. Not really. That's the problem with optimism, with hope. You end up disappointed.

Lexa Hillyer