Positive thinking Quotes

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

You have a lot of optimism when you are young.

- Alec Baldwin

'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.

- Alethea Kontis

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

- Andrew Solomon

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

- Antonio Gramsci

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

- Ariel Sharon

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

- Arnold Bennett

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

- Astro Teller

If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.

- Astro Teller

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.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

- bell hooks

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

- Bernard Beckett

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

- Bibi Bourelly

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.

- Billy Connolly

My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

- Brad Feld

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

- Brian May

When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

- Bruce Cameron

I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark.

- Carrie Brownstein

We can all think we're discriminated against, and I'm sure many of us are. But I see a ton of optimism in corporate America around the advancement and retention of women.

- Cathy Engelbert

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.

- Charles Dance

My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.

- Chelsea Clinton

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

- Colin Powell

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

- Colin Wilson

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.'

- Colum McCann

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

- Conor Oberst

The Republican Party has to be the party of optimism and giving our children a better starting point. We have to make sure we're broader, more inclusive, and reaching out to every community.

- Cory Gardner

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

- David Carson

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

- David Limbaugh

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.

- Dee Dee Myers

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.

- Dolores O'Riordan

There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a 'can-do' attitude. You could call that 'can-do' attitude optimism, but it is not Pollyannaish optimism. Rather, it is a 'we'll figure it out' type of mentality.

- Dylan Taylor

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

- Edward C. Prescott

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

- Elbert Hubbard

When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.

- Eric Betzig

My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. People had such a boundless sense of optimism; They felt they could do anything they wanted to do, and they went out and tried to do it.

- Erik Larson

I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.

- Eskinder Nega

A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn't afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don't always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else.

- Eva Chen

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

- Fred G. Gosman

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

- Gary Johnson

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

- George Santayana

You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

- George Stephanopoulos

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

- Gloria Estefan

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

- Harry Stack Sullivan

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

- Havelock Ellis

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

- Henry Rollins

An experienced designer with more freedom to act might have realised that there was just too much optimism in the Ares I concept: that a shuttle SRB was simply too small as a first stage for a rocket carrying the relatively heavy Orion spacecraft.

- Henry Spencer

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

- Herbert Croly

I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.

- Hilda Solis

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

- Howard Mumford Jones

L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.

- Hugh Laurie

It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

- J. D. Vance

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

- Jack Layton

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

- Jack Layton

The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.

- James Gleick

My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.

- Jan Brett

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

- Jane McGonigal

Optimism is an expectation that good things are going to be plentiful. The wealthy generally have the sense that life will bring good rather than bad outcomes. That doesn't mean they believe that good things will be omnipresent, but that they will outnumber the not-so-good.

- Jean Chatzky

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

- Jill Clayburgh

Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.

- Jill Lepore

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

- Jim Leach

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

- Joan Blades

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

- John Carney

My optimism for life carried through my work.

- John Dyer

Actually, we chose the name Sun Cellular because we believe the name 'Sun' is bright, forward-looking and optimistic. It is my sincere hope that the whole Philippines will share our positive outlook, optimism and faith in the country's future.

- John Gokongwei

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

- John Grogan

One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

- John Wells

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.

- Jordan Gavaris

It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.

- Julia Cameron

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

- Karl Lagerfeld

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

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.

- Linda Lingle

Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life.

- Linda McMahon

I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.

- Mandy Patinkin

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

- Margery Allingham

Optimism can be relearnt.

- Marian Keyes

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

- Mark McKinnon

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

- Martin Seligman

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

- Mary Quant

If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?

- Matt Haig

The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.

- Matt Sharp

I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.

- Matthew Williamson

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

- Meshell Ndegeocello

That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

- Mike Barnicle

Optimism is the opium of the people.

- Milan Kundera

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.

- Mitch Daniels

I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

- Mitt Romney

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

- Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

- Nicholas M. Butler

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

- Oscar Wilde

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

- Patricia Cornwell

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

- Paul Fussell

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

- Paul Theroux

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

The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'

- Peter Thiel

I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.

- Phyllis A. Whitney

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

- Ramez Naam

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

- Raymond Aron

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.

- Rebecca Hall

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

- Richard M. DeVos

My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.

- Rick Perlstein

I get teased a lot for my optimism.

- Rob McClure

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

- Robert Anton Wilson

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.

- Robert Dallek

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

- Robert Hewison

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

- Roberto Rossellini

Comedy is acting out optimism.

- Robin Williams

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

- Ron Fournier

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

- Ronald Reagan

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

- Salman Rushdie

When people exercise, we talk about endorphins, but endorphins are just short-term. The reason why exercise is valuable is it trains your brain to believe, 'My behavior matters,' which is optimism.

- Shawn Achor

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

- Sheri L. Dew

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

- Sherwin B. Nuland

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

- Shiv Nadar

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

- Sonia Sotomayor

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

- Stephane Hessel

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

- Stephen Ambrose

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

- Stephen Hawking

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

- Steve Earle

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

- Steve Toltz

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

- Studs Terkel

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

- T. J. Miller

There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

- Tom Hanks

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

- Tom Hanks

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

- Tom Rath

What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.

- Tony Judt

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

- Toyo Ito

Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.

- Travis Kalanick

Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.

- Twyla Tharp

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.

- Tyler Cowen

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

- Vaclav Havel

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

- Vernor Vinge

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Voltaire

I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

- Wendy Davis

In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.

- Whitney Tilson

Optimism is the key.

- Will Champion

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

- William Ralph Inge

Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.

- Wolfgang Schauble

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

- Zaha Hadid