“I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 11 of 204
“God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.”
“Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.”
“I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.”
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
“I guess one person can make a difference.”
“You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
“We are running out of time”
“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
“When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.”
“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
“I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.”
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
“Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.”
“If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.”
“This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”
“Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.”
“Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.”
“You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.”