Optimism Quotes - Page 16

• The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Stress, Survival, Problem

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2018

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• For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Realist

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• Because of my life experience and because of my public life experience, I have the ability to lead this nation and to bring all people together and to lift up the cause of this nation so that we once again become a nation that comes from the heart and reconnect with our optimism to really create a nation that we can all be proud of.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Heart, People, Together

  Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. September 9, 2003.

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• Money managers have to account for their actions to their shareholders, which means they have an undue fear of underperformance. We invest only our own money. Our investments are driven by optimism, not fear.

  Richard Chandler

  Mean, Action, Investment

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• In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Believe, Communication

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• The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Secret, Has Beens

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• Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

  Thomas Friedman

  Attitude, Strategy, Optimism And Hope

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• The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

  Denis Waitley

  Winning, Simple, Self

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• Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fool, Accepting

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• There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Simple, Tea

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Secret, Reliance

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• Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

  Martha Stewart

  Business, Integrity, Work

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• A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Views, Might, Human Nature

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• Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

  Neil Gaiman

  World, Twins, Force

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• If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

  Bill Gates

  Empathy, Secret, Matter

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• I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

  Elif Safak

  Believe, Government, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

  Dov Davidoff

  Fuel, Painful, Break

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• Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Character, Expectations, Outcomes

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• There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

  David Rakoff

  Optimistic, Thinking, Details

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• I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong, "I've got the world ahead of me. I'm gonna be a go-getter.

  John Reuben Zappin

  Boys, Thinking, Ideas

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• I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand the depths of the problem afterwards, I found a little bit surprising.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Leader, Political, Depth

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want him to die in a fiery accident. That's a quote from someone else, but there's something about American optimism, that feeling you can do anything if you're at least middle class in America. If I can have a writing career, anyone can. There's nothing special about me.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, America, Doors

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• One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

  Drew Houston

  Entrepreneur, Tolerance, Risk

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