Motivational Quotes

Optimism

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.

Best Quotes about Optimism

1.

A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.

Dane, Frank

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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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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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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

5.

Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

6.

Vote with your life; vote yes!

Energi, Das

7.

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

Susan J. Bissonette

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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

Robert G. Allen

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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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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

13.

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

Piatt, Don

14.

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

Gramsci, Antonio

16.

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

James Branch Cabell

18.

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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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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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

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Ellis, Havelock

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

28.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Kundera, Milan

29.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Paul Fussell

30.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

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

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.

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

Faulkner, William

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

41.

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

Peter Ustinov

42.

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

Durkheim, Emile

43.

My sun sets to rise again.

Browning, Robert

44.

The happy ending is our national belief.

Mccarthy, Mary

45.

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

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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.