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Most Famous Optimistic Quotes
And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit. Rosamund Lupton
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. Jack Layton
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. George Bernard Shaw
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. Lucille Ball
For myself I am an optimist it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. Winston S. Churchill
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful. Martin Seligman
I am so far from being a pessimist on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. Eugene O’Neill
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. Orison Swett Marden
Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I’m a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it ‘the eaten by wolves factor. If I do something, what’s the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don’t worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do. Randy Pausch
We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me? Margaret Trudeau
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual Virginia Woolf
In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism. Deb Haaland
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. Bernard Beckett
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston S. Churchill
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. Vaclav Havel
Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking. Rick Steves
Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. Tom Hanks
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. William Arthur Ward
These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Virginia Woolf
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. J.R.R. Tolkien
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. Lucille Ball
I’m continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature’s greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people’s faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain. Matthew Williamson
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. Noam Chomsky
There are two things in Indian history one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history. Salman Rushdie
Optimism, said Cacambo, What is that? Alas! replied Candide, It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. Voltaire
Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person you already feel fortunate. Daniel Kahneman
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. Thomas L. Friedman
In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken. Whitney Tilson
Some people grumble that roses have thorns I am grateful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr
Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn’t leave the Republican Party; it left me. Charlie Crist
The longest way must have its close the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. Harriet Beecher Stowe
My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India. Chanda Kochhar
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it he knows too little. Mark Twain
A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn’t afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don’t always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else. Eva Chen
there’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst. Stephen King
Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world. James Gunn
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know. Billy Connolly
For myself I am an optimist it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. Winston Churchill
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know. Billy Connolly
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won’t always be bleak [and] there’s a way to rise above the present circumstances. Wayne W. Dyer
Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It’s tiring. Jesmyn Ward
Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Norman Cousins
There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism. Martin Seligman
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
It’s OK to stand back. But it’s also good to demonstrate that it’s fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, ‘This looks fun. I’d like to try this, too,’ your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism. Julia Cameron
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. Voltaire
Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism. Andrew Solomon
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. Orison Swett Marden
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. Arthur C. Clarke
I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you’re infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it’s not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won’t do much good. Tom Rath
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. Charles R. Swindoll
I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens. Isoroku Yamamoto
Optimism means better than reality pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist. Margaret Atwood
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. Ellen Willis
