Optimism Quotes
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Optimism Quotes & Sayings
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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 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
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
As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?
— Cassandra Clare
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
The pessimist focuses on the storm;
the optimist looks forward to the rainbow. — Matshona Dhliwayo
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
"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
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
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
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