Barack Obama Quotes

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world." That's not me. That's not my job.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I've realised that nothing that happens is so grim that life can't go on. Life always goes on, no matter what. Even in the grimmest situation, I see hope.

I am hopeful about the future of humanity.

We should be optimistic about the future even though we have a complicated present.

I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature.

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

Hope is only the love of life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

Hope is the mainspring of life.

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.