Quotes about optimism

"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   

"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   

"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   

"A man who calls bullshit fertilizer."

Dane, Frank on optimism   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

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

Kennedy, John F. on optimism   

"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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"Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger."

Larsen, Christian D. 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   

"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   

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

Marquis, Don on optimism   

"The happy ending is our national belief."

Mccarthy, Mary on optimism   

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

Nathan, George Jean on optimism   

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert on optimism   

"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   

"... 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   

"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   

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

Sandburg, Carl on optimism   

"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   

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on optimism   

"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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