Top 100 Quotes About Optimistic: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Optimistic

#1. The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

John F. Kennedy

#2. I have found in my travels that those who keep heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. Forward-looking Christians remain optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ someday will rule.

Billy Graham

#3. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life - whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook).

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be?

Zig Ziglar

#5. Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Christopher Walken

#6. I believe the conditions are very favorable for Mexico to grow. I'm very optimistic.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#7. Do not allow defeat to extinguish your dreams. If you keep working and remain optimistic, opportunities can come your way.

George W. Bush

#8. Only the forward-looking Christian remains sincerely optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ will win in the end.

Billy Graham

#9. There's not a girl who's more hopeful than a slut, more optimistic.She may give in but she doesn't give up.She keeps looking, she keeps hoping, she's always waiting for that someone who will say it: i love you too.

Diana Joseph

#10. My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.

Oscar De La Renta

#11. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

Michael Franti

#12. One thing I've learned from my short time trying to be a farmer is that our farmers have to be the bravest, most optimistic people in the world. To go back to the land year after year, after what nature throws at them and the world economy does to their income, takes a special kind of person.

Sara Henderson

#13. Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

Jane McGonigal

#14. Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.

Silken Laumann

#15. Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

Peter O'Toole

#16. I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

Guy Pearce

#17. I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

Gary Johnson

#18. 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

#19. A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

Karen Duffy

#20. Sundays, like a stanza break
Or shower's end of all applause,
For some old unexplaining sake
The optimistic tread these shores,
As lonely as the dead awake
Or God among the dinosaurs.

Glyn Maxwell

#21. Analysts have always been overly optimistic.

David Dreman

#22. She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God. Nevertheless, she kept an open mind. She was not a melancholy agnostic, but the optimistic kind. She liked to give God the benefit of the doubt.

Allegra Goodman

#23. There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.

Mohsin Hamid

#24. I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I'm writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief that this is all there is to it.

Don Carpenter

#25. Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Michelle Williams

#26. In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic.

Lionel Suggs

#27. Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

Daniel Kahneman

#28. Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.

David Maraniss

#29. Putting her trust in God, she displayed the same optimistic excitement on the eve of a garden party or on the eve of a revolution, whereby her hasty gestures seemed to exorcise radicalism or inclement weather.

Marcel Proust

#30. How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

Paula Poundstone

#31. 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

#32. I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

John Dyer

#33. Visualization prepares you for the experience of success. As you become increasingly optimistic and excited about ideas that motivate you, you open yourself to new ideas, meaningful relationships, and exhilarating opportunities.

Julie Connor

#34. I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Focusing on the tiniest details, finding magic in even the smallest inspirations, embracing the briefest moments-that's where passion is.

Linda Kaplan Thaler

#35. Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

Conor McGregor

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Isabel Allende

#39. Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

Tasha Tudor

#40. I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.

Paul Begala

#41. Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.

Jon Gordon

#42. I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.

Norman Reedus

#43. 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

#44. If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same.

Stacy Hawkins Adams

#45. I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

Dan Quayle

#46. The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#47. Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#48. To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

Criss Jami

#49. Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#50. 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

#51. We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.

Alberto Gonzales

#52. Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

John Bishop

#53. I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.

Michael Caine

#54. There was something obscene about a billionaire's being optimistic and aggressive and cunning.

Kurt Vonnegut

#55. We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer.

John Green

#56. It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.

Vance Havner

#57. We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

David Bromstad

#58. I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.

Philippe Falardeau

#59. Being optimistic is the view looking for the best, it comes with the "never give up" attitude.

Pearl Zhu

#60. The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.

Ray Kurzweil

#61. I like athletic men, but not like Arnold Schwarzenegger, though he's gorgeous. A guy's got to be sexy, optimistic, like to have a good time.

Terry Farrell

#62. 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

#63. I'm optimistic, and I have a lot of goals. And I obey the laws of nature: I eat, exercise, and rest properly. But mostly it's about keeping the mind engaged. My grandmother lived to 104, and she had all of her faculties. I'm physically active and devout - just not as Buddhistic as she was.

George Takei

#64. The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.

Miguel Syjuco

#65. An optimistic early-rising whore with red lips and red boots sauntered along, smiling hopefully at middle-aged men, but there were no takers at this hour.

Ken Follett

#66. I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

Nick Cannon

#67. Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table".

Michaelson Williams

#68. Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?

Robert Black

#69. I don't feel very optimistic in London.

David Bailey

#70. optimism. Lean, fit, happy, optimistic, energetic, brimming with vim and vigor: these

Chris Crowley

#71. I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Viggo Mortensen

#72. Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there's a housing bubble and you'll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you'll have World War III. Been there, done that!

Jeremy Grantham

#73. It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.

Neill Blomkamp

#74. While I may be pessimistic about parts of the business that support journalism, I'm optimistic about the robust survival of journalism in the long run.

George Brock

#75. A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

Moby

#76. I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed.

George Takei

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

Rayvon Owen

#78. Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Mike Royko

#79. 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

#80. When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'

Marc Faber

#81. I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

John Lewis

#82. For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

John C. Reilly

#83. 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

#84. I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

Conor Oberst

#85. I'm confident and really optimistic.

Saku Koivu

#86. If you are feeling overly optimistic the Republican Candidates Debate is on.

Kristen Schaal

#87. We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.

Ted Cruz

#88. Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of it, something about the colours of Australia. And hopefully, something optimistic about Australian painting too.

Ken Done

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness
that is, the improbable
with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.

Emile M. Cioran

#92. Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

Alain De Botton

#93. Jeers and obscenities trailed after us like optimistic pickpockets.

Lyndsay Faye

#94. If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Randy Pausch

#95. A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

Joan Z. Borysenko