“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 29 of 204
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
“I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.”
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.”
“Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.”
“Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.”
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
“Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb.”
“Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.”
“Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.”
“This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.”
“I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.”
“Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.”
“The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.”
“Ask for what you want. Believe that you deserve it, and then allow Life to give it to you.”
“If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.”
“The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.”
“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”