“It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 4 of 204
“If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.”
“United we stand, divided we fall.”
“A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.”
“The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.”
“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.”
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
“I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.”
“If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.”
“When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.”
“Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.”
“Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery”
“I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.”
“A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.”
“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind.”
“You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”