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Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome — Hilary Thayer Hamann

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great — Khaled Hosseini

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female. — Oscar Wilde

I think optimism is a moral imperative. — Marianne Williamson

Wild optimism puts a big target on your forehead. — Matthew Quick

Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you. — Judith Orloff

What is this optimism?" said Cacambo. "Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong. — Voltaire

Negative thoughts are the causes of all depression and all stress.
Be positive; never infect your mind with negative thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

I think the fundamentals of the economy are finally in the electronic economy and they are strong are we have reason for great optimism. — George W. Bush

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic. — Benjamin Graham

No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side. — Zig Ziglar

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be? — Cassandra Clare

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load. — John Piper

Come on! Who wants to fight me? — John Fante

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. — Patricia Ireland

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton

All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship — Jocelyn Murray

Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life. — Benny Bellamacina

The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other. — Martin E.P. Seligman

Positive emotions, such as the feelings of love, kindness, self-worth, confidence and optimism, produce a better person and a good destiny. — Auliq Ice

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself. — Wes Fesler

I might walk vast expanses
of earth and always be beginning
and I love beginning
or could learn
to love it. — S. Jane Sloat

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by. — Danny Wallace

The joy of success outweighs whatever negativity you might get from failing a couple of times. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Optimism is a gift, but one that must be carefully controlled. Your hopeful optimism will get us all killed! — Noelle Crawford

Head up, heart open. To better days! — T.F. Hodge

The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist. — Gregor Collins

Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses. — Oscar Wilde

Looking back, I can see that one of the things my friends had to suffer out of affection for me was my optimism about weather, — Agatha Christie

Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones, — Eleanor H. Porter

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. — Twyla Tharp

Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God. — Edmund Campion

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today. — Dwight Howard

The bigger the mess, the greater the progress. — Richie Norton

We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament. — Ewart S. Grogan

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything. — Thomas Hood

If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

We'll never survive!"
"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. — William Goldman

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative. — Geoff Dyer

Optimism is the true moral courage — Ernest Shackleton

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia. — Astro Teller

People can be tough as hell. They can go through some really heavy stuff... with a genuine smile... — Adam Scythe

After all of this you're still 'Rayhan the Chivalrous', full of hope and optimism? — Elizabeth Carlton

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. — Criss Jami

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler. — Paul Theroux

What you must do, do cheerfully. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

In every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key. — Wes Fesler

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is. — Richard Matheson

Your optimism continues to defy reality — Aimee Carter

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! — T. S. Eliot

Optimism is the best fertilizer. — Kevin J. Anderson

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. — William Ralph Inge

Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior. — Larry Elder

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have. — Bobby Darnell

Imagined happiness is still happiness. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use. — Robin Roberts

Pessimism never won any battle. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths. — Vic Braden

optimism. Lean, fit, happy, optimistic, energetic, brimming with vim and vigor: these — Chris Crowley

Open you eyes to the world around you.. Block out the screams of pessimism.. Release your inhibitions! — Nike Thaddeus

Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile. — William Arthur Ward

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous. — Hyman G. Rickover

We've got an unbeatable team."- Sauron — Robert Lynn Asprin

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair. — Charles Dance

Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners. — Xiaolu Guo

My optimism for life carried through my work. — John Dyer

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity. — Daniel Willey

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species. — Elizabeth Taylor

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith. — Amy Neftzger

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. — Arthur C. Clarke

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle. — Wes Fesler

No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests. — Robin Sharma

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man. — Victor Hugo

Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice. — James Lee Burke

If we lose our optimism, we lose our greatest power to make things better. — Gary Edward Gedall

Faith and optimism are contagious. — Thom S. Rainer

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems. — Price Pritchett

Optimism is the foundation of courage. — Nicholas M. Butler

I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it. — Ray Kroc

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. — Nicholas Sparks

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly. — Sarah Kay

The pessimist focuses on the storm;
the optimist looks forward to the rainbow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly. — Voltaire

Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer — Warren Buffett

I wish I possessed your particular brand of optimism," Rahim grumbled.
"And what brand would that be?"
"Idiotic. — Renee Ahdieh

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive. — Jennifer Senior

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience. — Nicholas Proffitt

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences. — Richard Davidson

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption. — Vanna Bonta

Optimism is life changing.... — Kathleen Grieve

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective. — Michael J. Fox

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz

I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Optimism is a belief and I adapt belief as a way of life. — Fe-en-Dios

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. — Virginia Woolf

Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home ... — Lesley Wheeler

Social Media begins with a story - your story. — Germany Kent

Be happy
if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? — Tom Stoppard