#optimist

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#before #believer #freedom #lunch #man

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. ↗

— Jack Layton

#better #change #change the world #despair #fear

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#about #adjusts #change #complains #expects

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. ↗

— James Buchan

#eyes #financial #financial markets #forever #future

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#leaders #need #optimists #present #their

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#allow #any #constructive #dwell #kind

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#i #i am #just #mean #minnesota

So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#am #fact #federal #future #i

I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?' ↗

— David Miliband

#could #developing #going #goodness #here