“An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 49 of 204
“If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.”
“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
“The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.”
“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
“What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.”
“Injustice never rules forever.”
“As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.”
“The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.”
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”
“Great nations which fail to meet their responsibilities are consigned to the dustbin of history. We grew from that small, weak republic which had as its assets spirit, optimism, faith in God and an unshakeable belief that free men and women could govern themselves wisely. We became the leader of the free world, an example for all those who cherish freedom.”
“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”
“Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.”
“Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.”
“I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.”
“If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.”
“If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.”
“The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.”
“There is no security in life, only opportunity.”
“Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.”