“He turns not back who is bound to a star.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 118 of 204
“If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.”
“We do not attract what we want, But what we are.”
“I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.”
“First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.”
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
“What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power”
“The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.”
“Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.”
“Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.”
“Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.”
“To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.”
“If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.”
“I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.”
“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.”
“Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.”
“What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.”
“The American Dream, that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.”
“One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.”
“Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.”