Positive Emotions: Optimism Quotes

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"No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment"

John Deacon, Musician

"Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity"

Rick Perry, Politician

"I don't feel very optimistic in London"

David Bailey, Photographer

"Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks"

Chris Squire, Musician

"It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?"

Eliza Cook, Poet

"I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today"

Ben Harper, Musician

"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"The worse a situation becomes, the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside"

George Soros, Businessman

"I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"I am an optimistic lady"

Julie Andrews, Actress

"I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle"

Paul Martin, Politician

"My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day"

Martha Beck, Author

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve"

John Mayer, Musician

"Look, even bad years are pretty good years, I think"

Robert Downey, Jr., Actor

"I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"There are many talented people"

Paula Abdul, Musician

"I have a lot of faith in people"

John Lithgow, Actor

"No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad"

Nigella Lawson, Journalist

"We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me"

Shannyn Sossamon, Musician

"I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more"

Ron Wood, Musician

"I always looked ahead"

Chris Evert, Athlete

"I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent"

Bruce Kent, Activist

"Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down"

Joe Strummer, Musician

"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age"

Freya Stark, Writer

"I've always had great faith in people"

Wayne Newton, Musician

"I think most folks are good folks"

Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity

"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now"

Tia Carrere, Actress

"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, Politician

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