“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 5 of 204
“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
“If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it.”
“When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.”
“People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.”
“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”
“A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.”
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
“Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.”
“You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.”
“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.”
“If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation”
“Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.”
“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.”
“I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.”
“In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining...I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.”
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”