“Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 128 of 204
“I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.”
“Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.”
“Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.”
“That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.”
“I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.”
“Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.”
“The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.”
“We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.”
“Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.”
“If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.”
“Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.”
“I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.”
“One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.”
“Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!”
“To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the message I'm portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I'm just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is OK and they can be successful at it.”
“Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.”
“How can you help the human race progress?”
“Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.”
“I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.”