Optimistically Quotes

#1. That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Think objectively.
Think operationally.
Think optimistically.
Think outstandingly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. It's very important to think optimistically. You've got to think to yourself, 'I'm going to get better every day.'

Ty Simpkins

#4. I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. We must return to nature and nature's God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#5. Can't believe you're allowing him to do this. Next thing we know, you'll be dating a human.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. Right. Because if you have trouble putting ketchup and mustard on a hot dog, you should totally move on to saving lives.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#7. All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

Cornelia Funke

#8. One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Well, that went well, I muttered to my cock, which had optimistically jumped up when I did. All pumped up with nowhere to go. I took it for a shower and gave it a few strokes to make it feel better, but it wasn't fooled. It knew it was just my hand tugging on it.

J.L. Merrow

#10. Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

Norman Vincent Peale

#11. I used to pessimistically think I was going to die alone, but now I optimistically know I'm going to die hoping to meet someone.

Dana Gould

#12. Considering the great heritage in music that we have - the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come - I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically.

John Coltrane

#13. Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

Nick Cohen

#14. Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

Leonie Swann

#15. Money often costs too much

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

Luther Burbank

#17. There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

Norman Vincent Peale

#18. Live constructively and live optimistically.

Alfred A. Montapert

#19. We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

H.G.Wells