Optimism Quotes

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

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.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

Optimism is the key.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

My optimism for life carried through my work.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

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.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

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.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

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.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.