Top 285 Optimistic Quotes

For whatever reason, some sorts of women’s silence were broken by MeToo. This is the optimistic bit. And that will lead to a much more careful attention to women’s voices.
Mary Beard
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
Seamus Heaney
My management tells me, Don’t be optimistic, because it’s the young people’s world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you’re a classic rocker. I don’t know if you’re gonna get the play.
Bob Seger
It’s really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.
Charles Osgood
The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that’s a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.
Ray Kurzweil
I have better peripheral vision in my left. It is quite

I have better peripheral vision in my left. It is quite hard to remain optimistic, but I have found the Macular Society, of whom I’ve been an enthusiastic supporter for nine years, tremendously helpful in providing support.
Denis Norden
My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn’t be happier that’s where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog’s world as I like, but the dog doesn’t care. Dog doesn’t judge. Dog doesn’t dislike. Dog loves. That’s not so bad.
W. Bruce Cameron
I’m so optimistic, it’s depressing.
Lindsay Wagner
When I do look at myself, I see someone who is fundamentally optimistic. Quite a lot of what I do in my television work involves the less than pleasant aspects of human nature, yet I’m never pessimistic.
Gavin Esler
My own personality is fairly optimistic and generally very happy, but like everyone else I’ve been through difficult stuff, particularly in my teenage years, where I experienced enough melancholia to feed any number of electronic records.
Jon Hopkins
I’m a very happy, optimistic person.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Exercise is an amazing tool to help us feel happier, more energised, and more optimistic.
Joe Wicks
The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people’s deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse – that our leaders ‘can’t do anything right,’ that things are utterly falling apart.
Cass Sunstein
I think we’ve all been in relationships – whether they’re romantic relationships or not – where there are things that you excuse because you want it to work, because you are hopeful, because you’ve invested in this relationship, and you might not otherwise let them fly, but you’re being optimistic.
Miriam Shor
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
John Lewis
I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don’t feel I’ve in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I’m optimistic.
Damon Albarn
I’m an optimistic guy.
Derrick Lewis
People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.
Daniel Kahneman
‘Shrapnel’ is based on the idea that we do colonize the solar system, but it’s not clean and optimistic. The haves are putting the screws to the have-nots. The story is about the last stand of the last free colony in the solar system.
Nick Sagan
You always have to be optimistic, you can never lose that.
Connor McDavid
I’ve always been a positive, optimistic person who loves life, and I’ve got a lot to be positive about.
Samantha Barks
Inside, I’m optimistic.
James Arthur
I like to keep working and keep changing. It’s a hopeful, optimistic thing to think and sit about what you could do next. Maybe it’s blind optimism.
Samuel Ervin Beam
If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
John Lewis
We’re really willing to see more and more U.S. entrepreneurs conducting investments in Turkey. I’m optimistic for the future.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.
Patti Smith
I guess the news is this: If you’re a Republican and you smile, liberals don’t like it. Maybe that’s because Democrats are afraid that I’ve been able to show an optimistic vision for this country.
Cory Gardner
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn’t afraid of looking uncool – he wasn’t scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
Lev Grossman
Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
William McDonough
I do tend to be on the more optimistic end of things.
Travis Beacham
I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
Yanis Varoufakis
I’m a very upbeat, positive, optimistic type of person.
Jakob Dylan
I have always found the best way to live is to be optimistic and energetic and willing to work hard for my dreams as well as the dreams of others.
Homer Hickam
We’ve gone from, in the ’50s and ’60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.
David Wong
I couldn’t be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I’m pretty optimistic.
Jacqueline Woodson
I’m fairly sort of a laid-back and optimistic guy full of effervescence and vitality.
Saroo Brierley
But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt

But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
John Hench
I think it’s dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
Nicholas Kristof
I’m a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I’m an optimistic person.
Carlene Carter
I think it’s more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.
Eleanor Catton
By nature, I’m an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
Larry Kramer
I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
Binyavanga Wainaina