Optimism Quotes

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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
- Muhammad Yunus

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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
- Charlotte Bronte

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Comedy is acting out optimism.
- Robin Williams

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Positive things happen to positive people.
- Sarah Beeny

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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde

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Optimism is the opium of the people.
- Milan Kundera

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An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
- Don Marquis

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

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Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
- Ambrose Bierce

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You don’t have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
- Ross Perot

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If you’re brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top.
- Uri Geller

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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
- Mark Twain

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Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
- Rudy Giuliani

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Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
- Walter Winchell

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Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
- Mary Kay Ash

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

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To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
- Walter Chrysler

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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin Delano

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An optimist is a fellow who believes what’s going to be will be postponed.
- Kin Hubbard

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
- Mark Twain

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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray brown glasses.
- Charles Eliot

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Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.
- Anonymous

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

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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
- Peace Pilgrim

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Self praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
- John Madden

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

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If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
- Muhammed Ali

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I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
- Joan Blades

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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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If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
- Francis P. Yockey

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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
- Dr. Jonas Salk

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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.
- Earl Weaver

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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
- Kahlil Gibran

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Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
- Bo Bennett

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I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
- Patricia Ireland

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Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
- Mark Victor Hansen

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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half inch eraser in case you thought optimism was dead.
- Robert Brault

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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
- Calvin Coolidge

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
- George Bernard Shaw

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