Motivational Quotes

Optimism

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

- Durkheim, Emile

Best Quotes about Optimism

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Durkheim, Emile

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Peter Ustinov

... 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

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Paul Fussell

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

Faulkner, William

These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Churchill, Winston

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Twain, Mark

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The happy ending is our national belief.

Mccarthy, Mary

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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

Lardner, Ring

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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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Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Robert G. Allen

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An optimist is the human personification of spring.

Susan J. Bissonette

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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

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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

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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.

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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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Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

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A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.

Dane, Frank

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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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Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sandburg, Carl

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Weaver, Earl

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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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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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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Bradley, Francis H.

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An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kennedy, John F.

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As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our

Vizinczey, Stephen

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My sun sets to rise again.

Browning, Robert

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Vote with your life; vote yes!

Energi, Das

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Optimism is the opium of the people.

Kundera, Milan

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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 optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

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To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.

Piatt, Don

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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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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Gramsci, Antonio

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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.

Ellis, Havelock