“If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 201 of 204
“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”
“For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.”
“Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.”
“Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.”
“When you use the term 'cost per lead' you make marketing a cost center. Instead say 'investment per lead.'”
“As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.”
“A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.”
“Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.”
“Since I live part of the year in Italy, I live in a society in which I'm the optimistic American relative to the people who I'm around there. And that has actually brought to my attention the fact that I do have some sort of optimism and has made me think about it enough that I can attempt an answer.”
“Giving people like me a green card, a passport, and a driver's license? That's not going to be the end of the immigration conversation and debate in this country. It's like saying we elected Barack Obama president, so all of the racial problems are done. Right? I mean in some ways, the immigration conversation is just starting. Which is why when we started this campaign, we didn't call it Define Immigrant, we called it Define American. That's the question. That's what's at stake.”
“Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?”
“Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.”
“There is no power in your name or my name, but there is awesome power in the name of Jesus because of everything he represents.”
“Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!”
“As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.”
“The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.”
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”
“I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success.”
“No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20 years. They will almost certainly go up.”