Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?
Gardening is all about optimism.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
optimism is a disease
How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays. . . philanthropy begs.
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me. You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that's, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever. " That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.
Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.