I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion
Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.
Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.
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.
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.
In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.
Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
Creeds matter very little. . . The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.
But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.