Optimistic Quotes

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

Your Twitter Profile is your business card.

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

To inspire others, you must first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

What makes the best the best is they never actually think they're the best.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

He chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its outcome.

Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.

Remember, Those who have the gift of faith are growth-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic, and confident. – C. Peter Wagner.

I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona...

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.