Quotes on optimism
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
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Lucille Ball Quotes
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
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Lloyd Alexander Quotes
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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Virginia Quotes
Optimists are nostalgic about the future.
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Chicago Tribune Quotes
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
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Helen Rowland Quotes
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.
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Margaret Thatcher Quotes
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"
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Lemony Snicket Quotes
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
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Gil Stern Quotes
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
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Chauncey Mitchell Depew Quotes
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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Havelock Ellis Quotes
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
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Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron Quotes
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
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James Branch Cabell Quotes
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
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Leonard Louis Levinson Quotes
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Irv Kupcinet Quotes
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
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Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
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Susan J. Bissonette Quotes
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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George F. Will Quotes
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
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Robert Brault Quotes
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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Harry S. Truman Quotes
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
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Lucimar Santos de Lima Quotes
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
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Robert Mallett Quotes
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes