I Am Optimistic Quotes

#1. Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

Chelsea Clinton

#2. I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

Cornel West

#3. I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

Shalom Harlow

#4. If stocks are optimistic, then so am I.

Lawrence Kudlow

#5. [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

James Whyte Black

#6. I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.

Melinda Gates

#7. I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who care about how food is produced and what it does to their health and the environment.

Marion Nestle

#8. 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

#9. I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

Steve Irwin

#10. When I am optimistic, I choose to believe that every life I lead, every choice I make, has consequence. That I am not one Harry August but many, a mind flicking from parallel life to parallel life, and that when I die, the world carries on without me, altered by my deeds, marked by my presence.

Claire North

#11. I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

Thomas Friedman

#12. I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

Alain De Botton

#13. I am optimistic about the future of music.

George Crumb

#14. Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.

Yoko Ono

#15. 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

#16. By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

Emilio Estevez

#17. I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#18. I am an optimistic lady.

Julie Andrews

#19. 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

#20. From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.

Eduardo Galeano

#21. I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

Lucrecia Martel

#22. I expect miracles of life; I am very optimistic.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#24. People often ask why I remain so optimistic, even in the face of the complex challenges we are facing in the Jewish world, in Israel and beyond. It's because I am so impressed and inspired by the young people I meet.

Lynn Schusterman

#25. My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Greg Rusedski

#26. I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.

Joe Hockey

#27. For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Byron Katie

#28. A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Barack Obama

#29. I assure you I am as optimistic as a pessimist can be."-Fletcher

Tim McGiven

#30. I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

Helen Suzman

#31. I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.

Robert Kenner

#32. The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Albert Schweitzer

#33. And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

George W. Bush

#34. I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.

Michael Gove

#35. I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

George MacDonald

#36. I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

Christopher Reeve

#37. I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

Michael Weatherly

#38. I think that I am a deeply optimistic person.

Julia Roberts

#39. I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

Meg Rosoff

#40. I am enthusiastic and optimistic.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

Jesse Michaels

#42. So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

Dalton McGuinty

#43. I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.

Stanislaw Ulam

#44. I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

Eckhart Tolle

#45. I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

Kevin Cramer

#46. Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

Elie Wiesel

#47. If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Albert Camus

#48. My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.

Rayvon Owen

#49. I am optimistic that things will fall into place, and one day I'll be sitting in New York City with correct bus fare in my pocket.

David Sedaris

#50. I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

Daniel Gilbert

#51. I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.

James Frey

#52. I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

Rita Dove

#53. See here, son, I am not a pessimistic man. I am just plain optimistic that the worst will prevail. That there is Sam's law, son." John

S.E. Swapp

#54. I am a fairly optimistic person ... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.

Maggie Tabberer

#55. 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

#56. I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

Natan Sharansky

#57. I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.

Patti Smith

#58. I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

Robert David Steele

#59. By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Larry Kramer

#60. I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Adam Savage

#61. I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Walt Disney Company

#62. Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

Linus Pauling

#63. Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Edward Dahlberg

#64. We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

John Astin

#65. I am optimistic because I will use power of love to find the miracles of life.

Debasish Mridha

#66. I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

Narendra Modi

#67. I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.

Kiana Tom

#68. When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Carl Rogers

#69. I am a sanguinely optimistic person, I see the bright side, the silver lining, a half-full glass. Hence, my day is always sunny even though the sky foreboding.

Joseph V. Angeles