“The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 76 of 204
“The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.”
“We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.”
“I think there will be PCs at every price point.”
“I believe in the power of the human spirit.”
“Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.”
“I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.”
“What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.”
“There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.”
“I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?”
“For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.”
“If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.”
“No one knows enough to be a pessimist”
“Life is an Attitude. It's what you Choose to Believe, ALWAYS.”
“Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.”
“The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.”
“If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer.”
“America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”
“I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.”
“If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”