“I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 15 of 204
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”
“We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.”
“Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.”
“I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.”
“Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.”
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.”
“Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.”
“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
“There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.”
“Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.”
“I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.”
“'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!”
“I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.”
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.”
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”