Optimistic Quotes - Page 15

• The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am optimistic enough to believe that the next scourge to disappear will be large-scale warfare-killed by the existence and nonuse of nuclear weapons.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  War, Believe, Example

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• I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Cat, Views

  "At age 79, Hefner keeps things real". "Live and Direct" with Rita Cosby, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.

  Michael Bennet

  Years, People, Feelings

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• I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

  Sherrod Brown

  Thinking, People, Support

  "Moderate Dems coy on immigration" by Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. Think about how many people are underserved by transportation today, like those with disabilities, and how self driving cars will transform their lives. Or the wasted time you sit in your car every day commuting to and from work. Or the deaths and injuries that could be avoided.

  Larry Page

  Technology, Thinking, Self

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• At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Clever

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

  Denis Waitley

  Congratulations, Expectations, Mind

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• If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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• Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Encouragement, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Dec 08, 2011

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• You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Feelings

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• At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ; be cheerful and optimistic. Above all, never lose your faith in the destiny of India. There is no power on earth which can keep India in bondage. India will be free and, that too, soon. JAl-HIND !

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Destiny, Temporary Defeat

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• We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

  Conrad Black

  Ambition, People, Trying

  Official Records, www.ontla.on.ca. October 17, 1996.

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• Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!

  Takafumi Horie

  Ambition, Moon, Space

  "Takafumi Horie Talkasia Transcript". "Talk Asia" With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 200.

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• An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

  Leslie Hall

  Believe, Garden, Come Up

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• You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

  Steve Ballmer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.11, Harmony

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• We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Faith, Positivity, Night

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• ...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

  Mark Twain

  Breakfast, Optimist

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Talking, Perfection

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

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• Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

  Mark Twain

  Clothes, Optimism, Dreamer

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

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• [The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

  John Templeton

  Hurt, Learning, Conceited

  "Remembering Sir John Templeton" by Jessi Hempel, archive.fortune.com. November 28, 2008.

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• I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers and students both-but they did not come up with many new concepts. They weren't invited to come up with new concepts. Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Teaching, Years

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, June 1, 1999.

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• Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the next day to your medical doctor and he referred you to the book of Hippocrates, which was written at about the same time as the Bible, you would think that was old-fashioned.

  John Templeton

  Book, Thinking, Doctors

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

  John Templeton

  Science, Two, People

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

  John Templeton

  Children, Doctors, Soul

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