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Optimism Quotes

For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.

Change Politics Optimism Be Different

I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

Douglas Southall Freeman

History Mistakes Man Optimism Heaven

I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'

Darkness Optimism Blind Enough Takes

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Antonio Gramsci

Optimism Will Spirit Pessimism

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

Time Words Optimism Long Long Time

Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.

Penelope Mitchell

Art Walls Optimism People Me World

When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we've had since about the 1930s. I don't blame the Internet for that - that would be ridiculous.

Optimism People Blame Internet Say

Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.

Morris Gleitzman

Power Children Optimism Possibilities

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

Future Day Mistake Optimism Decade

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Howard Mumford Jones

Progress Optimism Energy American

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

George Santayana

Time Optimism Evil Existence Ruins

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

Life Optimism My Life Accidents Been

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.

Politics Man Optimism Me Party Said

You have a lot of optimism when you are young.

Optimism You Young Lot

When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.

Work Optimism Thinking You Know

The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

Queen Dress Optimism Wedding Train

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

Edward C. Prescott

Optimism Sometimes Pessimism Popular

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

Good Optimism People Start You Know

We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.

Work Hard Work Optimism Celebrate

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Optimism Terror Sheer Basis

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

Change Great Optimism Political Way

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Age Imagination Optimism View You

Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.

Optimism End Feel You Walks Even

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

Time Optimism Direction Driving Down

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