Quotes about optimism




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"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."

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"Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."

Bierce, Ambrose on optimism
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"An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white."

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"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

Bradley, Francis H. on optimism    Share

"My sun sets to rise again."

Browning, Robert on optimism
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"If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man."

Camus, Albert on optimism    Share

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake."

Dahlberg, Edward on optimism    Share

"A man who calls bullshit fertilizer."

Dane, Frank on optimism    Share

"Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them."

Durkheim, Emile on optimism    Share

"The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum."

Ellis, Havelock on optimism
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"Vote with your life; vote yes!"

Energi, Das on optimism    Share

"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail."

Faulkner, William on optimism
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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

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"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."

Gramsci, Antonio on optimism    Share

"Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass."

Jaworski, Ron on optimism    Share

"When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working."

Kennedy, John F. on optimism    Share

"Optimism is the opium of the people."

Kundera, Milan on optimism
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"An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve."

Lardner, Ring on optimism
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"When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower."

Macdonald, Sir John A. on optimism    Share

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

Mansell, Reginald B. on optimism    Share

"An optimist is a man who has never had much experience."

Marquis, Don on optimism    Share

"The happy ending is our national belief."

Mccarthy, Mary on optimism    Share

"An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out."

Nathan, George Jean on optimism    Share

"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it."

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert on optimism    Share

"Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment."

O'Rourke, P. J. on optimism    Share

"... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death."

Perry, Anne on optimism    Share

"To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents."

Piatt, Don on optimism
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"I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts."

Potter, Alice on optimism
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"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

Powell, Colin on optimism    Share

"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning."

Sandburg, Carl on optimism    Share

"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."

Swift, Jonathan on optimism    Share

"Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!"

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on optimism    Share

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist."

Twain, Mark on optimism
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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

Twain, Mark on optimism
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"Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts."

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"Optimism is the content of small men in high places."

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"Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train."

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