Top 285 Optimistic Quotes

I’m optimistic about the country; I’m optimistic about the American people.
Howard Schultz
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
Hillary Clinton
I assume that the worst will happen. So I’m never optimistic.
Ben Feldman
Because of the Internet, you’re sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It’s a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.
Kumail Nanjiani
I am super optimistic about the near-term prospects of AI because every time there is a technological disruption, it gives us the opportunity of making the world a little different.
Andrew Ng
I’m a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
Patrick Marber
I’m really optimistic in the mornings.
Kary Mullis
There is not a new hopeful, optimistic vision of the future that I am currently aware of. Certainly, not one that has penetrated pop culture awareness in the way ‘Star Trek’ has.
Ronald D. Moore
The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.
Rory MacLean
I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what’s going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
Conor Oberst
I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there’s something that put us all here – some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.
Mark Romanek
My mom is positive and optimistic.
Lindsey Vonn
I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I’m optimistic.
Karen Duffy
Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don’t know the odds. It’s a big difference.
Daniel Kahneman
How do you come back? It’s one step at a time. I’m optimistic because I don’t know what else to be.
Paula Poundstone
I’m very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future.
John Lewis
I was voted Most Happy-Go-Lucky in high school. Can you believe that? I was crying every other day by myself, but I was voted Most Optimistic and Most Likely to Have Her Own Television Talk Show.
Diane Guerrero
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
Natan Sharansky
I’m a very hopeful person. I mean, I’m an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
John Lithgow
I’ve never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don’t meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic – in every one of these places.
Eric Schmidt
Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won’t last too long and won’t affect other parts of life.
Martin Seligman
I can’t be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
Fay Vincent
It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
Daniel Kahneman
It’s important to have a life with optimistic thoughts.
Rituparna Sengupta
I’m always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
James Murphy
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
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I’m optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
Nick Harkaway
I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I’m getting on people’s nerves.
Nick Cannon
I’m generally an optimistic person.
Roberto Di Matteo
I’m optimistic, and I have a lot of goals. And I obey the laws of nature: I eat, exercise, and rest properly. But mostly it’s about keeping the mind engaged. My grandmother lived to 104, and she had all of her faculties. I’m physically active and devout – just not as Buddhistic as she was.
George Takei
My view is that the U.S. market will eventually join th

My view is that the U.S. market will eventually join the emerging markets on the downside because if you take a bearish view about emerging economies, you cannot be too optimistic about the U.S. because for many U.S. corporations, 50 percent or more of their profits come from emerging economies.
Marc Faber
I didn’t know what to expect of real America. What shocked me was the diversity of it and how different every city is. But also just how polite and usually good-willed and optimistic most Americans are.
Hozier
You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.
Norah O’Donnell
I think that the most well-intentioned, optimistic, creative people often live for the moment, and for ‘Portlandia,’ our goals were always very sort of short-term and attainable.
Carrie Brownstein
Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.
Gunnar Myrdal
I always try to be cautiously optimistic.
David Walton
Every time I meet Prime Minister Modi and listen to him and then see his actions, including GST, I see bold things that I don’t see in any other place. I am super impressed and optimistic.
Tim Cook
To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist – optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.
Kevin Rudd
I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it’s just such a popular thing.
Andrew Davies
I get more optimistic as I get older.
Richard Flanagan
I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people’s optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I’m doing.
Jo Brand
My experience has been that military assessments on ‘how goes the war’ are consistently more optimistic than those made by the CIA and other agencies.
Michael Hayden
So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
Dalton McGuinty
If you were an optimistic teen, then you’ll be an optimist at 80. People’s reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
Martin Seligman
My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
Olivia Wilde
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It’s optimistic; it’s enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.
Huston Smith
We are very optimistic about our opportunities in China. Our toothbrushes continue to sell very well, while the growth of private hospitals diminishes the risk of government preferring domestic suppliers.
Frans van Houten
It’s more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I’m one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
Dick Van Dyke
Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I’m incredibly happy with the results. ‘Everything To Me’ is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can’t wait for people to hear it!
Shane Filan
I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I’m very optimistic about it.
Eric Whitacre
I’m tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.
Sebastian Seung
I’m a relatively optimistic kind of guy.
David Means
I’m always going to be optimistic.
Davante Adams
The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. – different but a brighter, more optimistic future. We may have to go through some difficult times to get there, but get there we will.
Theresa May
My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.
Greg Rusedski
I am a very optimistic person. I don’t know if it is because I’ve come up right from the bottom, but I am someone who always thinks you can make things better.
David Villa
I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important – your life will be so bright.
Yu Chui Yee
It’s actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It’s cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.
Tom DeLonge
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.
Gough Whitlam
Grief is like a moving river, so that’s what I mean by it’s always changing. It’s a strange thing to say because I’m at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
Michelle Williams
If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I’ve noticed that they’re walking, not running, over to you.
Randy Pausch
I'm optimistic but I'm also not stupid.

I’m optimistic but I’m also not stupid.
Aldous Harding
I’ve always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the ’40s because there was no cynicism.
Carol Burnett
I’m a very positive person in my life. I’m very optimistic.
Cody Fern