“It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 10 of 204
“A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.”
“All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.”
“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
“Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.”
“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.”
“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”
“Mankind is at its best when it is most free.”
“Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.”
“The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.”
“Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.”
“I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.”
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
“We all have a responsibility to create a just society”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.”
“Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.”
“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.”
“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
“By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.”