Optimism Quotes - Page 2

• Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem

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• Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

  Christian D. Larson

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Success Of Others

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude, Destiny

  "Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind: How to Empower Your Dream". Book by Ron Rubin, Stuart Avery Gold (p. 86), March 15, 2005.

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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

  Country, Real, Way

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• It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

  Robin Roberts

  Believe, Best Is Yet To Come, Optimist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

  Walt Disney

  Uplifting, Gratitude, Moving Forward

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Melania Trump Quote Sounds Suspiciously Similar To Marla Maples" by Alana Horowitz Satlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 04, 2016.

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• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive, Strength, Inspiring

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Happiness, Fun, Investing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.109, Penguin

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• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

  Rene Descartes

  Running, Attitude, Optimistic

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• Pessimism never won any battle.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Attitude, Optimistic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Havelock Ellis

  Depression, Psychology, Lunatic Asylums

  Dance of Life (1923) ch. 3

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• I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

  Paul Fussell

  Depression, Depressing, Optimistic

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

  Antonio Gramsci

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Optimistic

  Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.299, Columbia University Press

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• 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

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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  Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Positive, Gratitude

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Heart, Optimistic, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Sunset, Hands, Two

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

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Men

  Notebook, Dec. 1902

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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.

  Peter Ustinov

  Hope, Wisdom, Believe

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

  Voltaire

  Optimistic, Madness, Miserable

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Positive, Funny Inspirational, Attitude

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.52, Oxford University Press on Demand

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