optimism Quotes

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.