“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 44 of 204
“This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.”
“Nothing is too good to be true.”
“Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.”
“We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.”
“I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.”
“Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.”
“I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.”
“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
“It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.”
“Tell me what you are for, and I will show you what is going to expand in a positive way. Tell me what you are against, and I can show you what is going to expand in a destructive way.”
“What must be shall be.”
“The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.”
“It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.”
“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”
“...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.”
“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party”
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”