Thomas Friedman Quotes

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

The future will be better tomorrow.

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.

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

The most optimistic content themselves with an expression of hope that things may change under the spur of necessity.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Let optimists rule the world.

Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.

Progress really is possible.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.