“Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 139 of 204
“Look not down but up!”
“Never forget that we are more than the genetic code. We can be more than labels applied to us. We can be more than what others whisper behind our backs. Free will exists. We need to choose to be the best we can be and we need to help others do the same. Believe in yourself.”
“I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.”
“We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.”
“A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.”
“I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.”
“The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.”
“Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who I have tons of respect for; I watch their games, I study their games, I try to learn from them. It gets you excited, but hopefully not too excited. Just focus on the game. Then when my career is done then I can look back at it.”
“Live life as if its rigged in your favor.”
“And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?”
“Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.”
“Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.”
“We will only grow as big as we dream that's why we must dream big.”
“In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.”
“In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.”
“If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.”
“I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.”
“There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.”
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”