“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 70 of 204
“Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.”
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
“...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.”
“I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.”
“We've had the most massive creation of wealth for people a lot younger than those who formerly got wealth in the history of the world. The world is full of young people who really want to get rich, and when I left school nobody thought it was a reasonable possibility.”
“Over the long term, the eclipse rate of great civilizations being overtaken is 100%. So you know how it's going to end. (Laughter) I'm more optimistic about the staying power of what's good in this country. But just because you have a wonderful spouse doesn't mean you should treat her badly. You have the feeling that some of the old virtues [that made this country great] are lessening. But there's so much good and so much strength left that I would not expect this country to suddenly founder.”
“I have spent my entire life working to make my community and my country better. And I can't wait to get inside the courtroom to tell my story.”
“Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.”
“I think of myself as a global citizen.”
“All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.”
“When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.”
“I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.”
“The more educated the people, the freer they are.”
“I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.”
“Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.”
“It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’”
“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
“Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.”
“Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.”