Optimism Quotes - Page 11

• Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Single, Attitude, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

  Brian May

  Bridges, Emotion, Creation

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• My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

  Abdul Kalam

  Views, Imagination, Age

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• And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

  Vernor Vinge

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

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• But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

  Linda Lingle

  Past, Years, Two

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• Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Progress, Energy, Spirit

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• I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

  Herbert Croly

  Literature, Mixtures, Host

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Stupid, Despair, Needs

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.80, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Bullying, Optimistic

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• A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

  Oscar Wilde

  Opportunity, Complaining, Noise

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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 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.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Strong, Mistake

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• There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

  Christopher Peterson

  Believe, Self, Expectations

  Christopher Peterson (2006). “A Primer in Positive Psychology”, p.128, Oxford University Press

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• I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational, Looks, Looking Forward

  "Standing Up for Freedom". Academy of Achievement, October 31, 2005.

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• There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.

  Carl Jung

  Jesus, Reality, Order

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Leader, Bills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

  Frank Langella

  Children, Cancer, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Views

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• I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

  Nelson Mandela

  Courage, Peace, Moving

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Regret, Yesterday, Today

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• Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Running, Philosophy, Life Is Good

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Tears, Done, Down And

  Orison Swett Marden (1910). “Getting on”

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• Optimism is the staunchest worshipper of life.

  Kedar Joshi

  Worshippers

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• Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

  Maureen Dowd

  Attention, Annoying, Perpetual

  "Liberties; Colin Powell Rules!". www.nytimes.com. September 17, 1995.

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• 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

  Positive Thinking, Work Out, Hopeful

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• Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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