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

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Optimism is the opium of the people.

- Kundera, Milan

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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.

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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

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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.

- Vßclav Havel

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

- Kennedy, John F.

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

- Mansell, Reginald B.

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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

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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

- Ustinov, Peter

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

- Nathan, George Jean

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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.

- Richard M. DeVos

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When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and sayWe are going to have a summer shower.

- Macdonald, Sir John A.

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

- Churchill, Winston

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Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

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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

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The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

- Peter Ustinov

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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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We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

- Didion, Joan

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

- Ambrose Bierce

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The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

- Conrad, Joseph