“What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 93 of 204
“Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.”
“I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t...”
“You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.”
“Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.”
“I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.”
“I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.”
“Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.”
“You can never get enough of what you don't want.”
“Everything that you are against works against you. Everything that you are against can be restated in a way that puts you in support of something. When you are able to state what you are for rather than what you are against, you are focusing on the potential for positive change. Once that is in place, you will find whatever you are focusing on expanding.”
“Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. It wasn't until 1920, four years after my mother was born - and she's still alive and healthy - that women were given the right to vote. Now it's hard even to imagine that for the greater part of the history of our country fifty percent of the population was not allowed to vote.”
“The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.”
“I decline to accept the end of man.”
“Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose”
“I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.”
“Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.”
“Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.”
“The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.”
“If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.”
“My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!”