“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 58 of 204
“We must preserve our right to think and differ.”
“All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.”
“Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”
“It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.”
“America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.”
“When you expect something, it is on the way. When you believe something, it is on the way. When you fear something, it is on the way. Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction.”
“Let others vibrate as they vibrate and want the best for them. Never mind how they're flowing to you. You concentrate on how you're flowing. Because one who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful, more influential than a million who are not.”
“I truly believe anyone can be wealthy.”
“If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.”
“People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.”
“I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.”
“Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.”
“If you want to be you, BE YOU!”
“It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.”
“The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.”
“Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.”
“There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.”
“I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.”
“You are doing better than you think you are.”