“Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 142 of 204
“Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.”
“"Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."”
“Unity increases power.”
“Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.”
“If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.”
“God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.”
“I don't think you have to make this choice about being on one side or the other side. My feeling is that when we are committed to growing the economy and making sure that our public employees have a place at the table through collective bargaining, everyone wins.”
“The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person, Michael Jordan included, and they always will be. I hope that today players, especially our young players, continue to recognize that simple fact. Nothing is more important than the game itself and the fans who support it.”
“You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.”
“We were meant to influence the world, not have the world influence us.”
“We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.”
“If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.”
“By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.”
“Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.”
“If I dwell on what I don't want, then I will get more of it. I affirm only the good in Life.”
“To me, true prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is also the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. It is never an amount of money; it is a state of mind. Prosperity or lack of it is an outer expression of the ideas in your head.”
“I think things just tend to fall into place… if you let them.”
“Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.”
“You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.”