optimism

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

3.

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.

- Rosa Parks

4.

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.

5.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

- Colin Powell

6.

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

- Piatt, Don

7.

My sun sets to rise again.

- Browning, Robert

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

9.

Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

10.

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

11.

... 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

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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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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

- Oscar Wilde

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

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

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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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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

- Butler, Philip

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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.