Great Optimism Quotes

#1. I think the fundamentals of the economy are finally in the electronic economy and they are strong are we have reason for great optimism.

George W. Bush

#2. In the immediate aftermath of the great Chicago fire, a business proprietor erected a shack in front of his burned-out business. On a sign, he placed his name and the tagline that everything was gone but wife, children, and energy.

H.W. Brands

#3. Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

Conor Oberst

#4. Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

Pierce Brosnan

#5. A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

Naomi Wolf

#7. You know, this country today, it seems to me
it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.

Tom Vilsack

#8. I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. Live life like a Legend, and society will start acknowledging you as a great Entrepreneur !

Ujjwal Chugh

#10. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Neal Shusterman

#11. Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

Ed Miliband

#12. I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

Edward Teller

#13. Gospel optimism leads to kingdom prayer. This psalm should move us to pray - and to pray with great hope and expectation - that the kingdom of Christ will prevail against the powers of evil and that all His elect will be brought in and made holy.

Joel R. Beeke

#14. To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. 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

#16. There is always room for optimism; there is always something to do that is historically important, choices in one's life that matter, a challenge against more powerful foes, great people to work with, and a real chance for victory.

Eric Mann

#17. 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

#18. There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Agnes Repplier

#19. But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.

John Hench

#20. One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

John Wells

#21. I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

Khaled Hosseini

#22. Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

Phil Cooke

#23. Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

Mason Cooley

#24. Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

Max Beerbohm

#25. What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

Rudy Giuliani

#26. That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

Mike Barnicle

#27. Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Thomas L. Friedman

#28. The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.

Corey Taylor

#29. 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

#30. Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

Roy T. Bennett

#31. Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.

Peter Beinart

#32. Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival.

Jonathan Heatt

#33. When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

Zaha Hadid

#34. Whatever's got you down is causing a great deal of stress. Pick yourself up and reflect on the positive things about your life. You'd be surprised at how one slingshot of optimism can overturn the deep dark thoughts affecting your mood and making you vulnerable.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#35. Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

Astro Teller

#36. I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force ... this is my religion of optimism.

Helen Keller

#37. Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Nitin Nohria

#38. I ... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.

Ruskin Bond