“Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 62 of 204
“We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.”
“Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.”
“Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.”
“Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.”
“I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.”
“As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.”
“The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.”
“By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.”
“The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.”
“The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.”
“Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.”
“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.”
“As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.”
“Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.”
“Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.”
“On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.”
“If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.”
“It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.”
“We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.”