Positive Emotions: Optimism Quotes

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"I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation"

Leif Garrett, Musician

"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there"

John Prescott, Politician

"Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things"

John Frusciante, Musician

"STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive"

George Takei, Actor

"Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"Everything's coming up roses - for me"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"Good things just keep happening"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine"

James Dickey, Novelist

"Think I'll win. Could be big"

Bob Dole, Politician

"Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking, it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"Accent your positive and delete your negative"

Donna Karan, Designer

"I do not believe they've run out of surprises"

Larry Niven, Writer

"I like America, and I think probably the American people like me"

Fernando Alonso, Celebrity

"I really try to say things as they basically are, and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand, it's important to get the sense... Are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Best now, better later"

L. M. Heroux, Writer

"You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it"

Jimmy Dean, Actor

"Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly"

Adrienne Clarkson, Journalist

"Life takes its path, and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens, unfortunately. But in a way, I think, if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen"

Andrea Corr, Musician

"The future is wider than vision, and has no end"

Donald G. Mitchell, Writer

"So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping"

Martin Mull, Actor

"All holidays can be good times"

John Clayton, Writer

"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"

John Hench, Artist

"I'm really optimistic in the mornings"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"People are smarter than you might think"

John Astin, Actor

"Dallas is a positive, get-it done city"

Laura Miller, Politician

"I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity"

Sandra Bernhard, Actress

"It seems everything is so full of possibilities, one can hardly take it all in"

Kenneth Koch, Poet

"I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic"

Kiana Tom, Model

"Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!"

Donna Karan, Designer

"I thought, This is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large,, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year"

Harold Ford, Politician

"I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out!"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"We have to learn to live with this. It is unlikely that these uncertainties will be resolved or eliminated soon. But uncertainty does not mean a lack of opportunity!"

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President

"The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds"

Phil Bredesen, Politician

"All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon"

Teena Marie, Musician

"The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable"

Margery Allingham, Writer

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