Optimists Quotations

As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.

Life takes action. Pessimists say it can't be done so they do nothing. Optimists say it will be done do they do nothing. Entrepreneurs say IT CAN BE DONE and they take action; thus, things get done.

Rising oil prices have been a major concern and there are some optimists out there who say earnings growth will be able to weather the current prices,

This report may give pause to some of the optimists looking for a stronger second half, ... We need a real boost if we're going to reverse some of these trends that are even more negative than we thought they were.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

We are by definition optimists but I think determined would be a better word. It was a first step, an important step, but frankly it was one quarter of very modest profit and we are not stopping,

While there are still more optimists than pessimists, this is the least optimistic that CFOs have been in the last two years.

As the US deficit continues to be financed easily, the optimists who think there is nothing to worry about are gaining ground over the pessimists who think an abrupt and costly adjustment is likely. But the optimists have to be right every day while the pessimists need to be right only once.

We know that income disparities are pretty wide, rural households still have to eke out a living and there is not enough trickle-down from prosperous areas. The key is improving agriculture -- there have been draughts and lack of infrastructure makes it difficult for people to market their crops. But I think in many respects Africans are eternal optimists -- AIDS, hunger and lack of long-term opportunities seem to stand in contrast to the poll.

The Fed really tried to throw some cold water on those who are saying the recession's over already. The optimists are declaring it over already ... I think there's a good chance they're wrong, and the Fed obviously is predicating policy on the basis that they are wrong.

It was not pessimists and reactionaries who built Britain's greatness, but visionaries, optimists and idealists,

It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth,