I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace this one. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: optimism future civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. —Lisa Alther More about this quote Tags: optimism effort attitude Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. —Colin Powell More about this quote Tags: optimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. —Havelock Ellis More about this quote Tags: optimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. —James Branch Cabell More about this quote Tags: optimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: optimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: optimism foolishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. —Robert G. Allen More about this quote Tags: optimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: optimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An optimist is the human personification of spring. —Susan J. Bissonette More about this quote Tags: optimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: optimism relationship happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen. —Jojo Moyes in Foreign Fruit More about this quote Tags: optimism imagination future good fate Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. —George Jean Nathan More about this quote Tags: optimism flies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: optimism pessimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you don't set up something to look forward to, the little things frequently get to you. —Daniel Chidiac in Who Says You Can't? YOU DO More about this quote Tags: optimism future frustration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email