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• As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

  Bill Gates

  Positive, Optimistic, Looks

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• Act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Positive, Failure

  Donald G. Carty, Dorothea Brande (2013). “How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success That Works”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

  Robert Collier

  Positive, Opportunity, Thinking

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

  Harvey Mackay

  Positive, Success, Optimistic

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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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, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.

  Rosa Parks

  Positive, Pain, Thinking

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

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• When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Positive, Appreciation

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.13, Harmony

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• People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Optimistic, Thinking

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “The Magic”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Believe, Optimistic

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• I'm an optimist.
  I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past.
  And I also believe I have a role in that.
  The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change.
  I can do better.
  If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.
  There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Business, Mistake

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

  Larry Page

  Inspirational, Silly, College

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• We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Strength, Being Strong

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• Optimism is true moral courage.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Life, Happiness, Anticipation

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• I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Believe, Passion

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.231, MIT Press

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• I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Fighting, Talking

  Barack Obama's Victory Speech in Chicago, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

  William James

  Dream, Hope, Clouds

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• In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Home, Sunset

  Letter announcing Alzheimer's diagnosis, November 5, 1994.

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• Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Positive, Positivity

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.94, Penguin

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• For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

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• Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans
  dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage,
  and marriage alone, we despair.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Marriage, America, Despair

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• Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

  Ed Miliband

  Congratulations, Victory, Election

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• May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.

  Ronald Reagan

  4th Of July, Divine Guidance, May

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.251, Humanix Books

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• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Success, Perseverance, Men

  Interview in "How They Succeeded" by Orison Swett Marden, Chapter 2, 1901.

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• The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

  Louise Brown

  Mother, Daughter, Clever

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