Optimism Quotes - Page 21

• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. 'Spare me the grim litany of the 'realist;' give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.

  Colin Powell

  Change, Attitude, Talking

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• Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Healing, Ego

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2015

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• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

  Hans Hofmann

  Attitude, Healing, Pessimistic

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 119, 1962.

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• I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Powerful, Optimistic

  "L K Advani makes Narendra Modi break down during speech". www.financialexpress.com. May 20, 2014.

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• My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

  Ellen Willis

  Attitude, Optimistic, Spirituality

  Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.80, U of Minnesota Press

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• Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Hate, Integrity, Unrequited Love

  "Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays".

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• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

  Hans Hofmann

  Passion, Able, Paint

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 119, 1962.

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• I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

  Paul Harvey

  Encouragement, Pessimist, Monument

  "Breatharians" by Callan Wink, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2012.

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• Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

  Bernard Williams

  Optimistic, Emptiness, Someday

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• No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

  Robert Mueller

  Optimistic, Able, Pessimism

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• The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Attitude, Latin

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.167

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• What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?

  Jennifer James

  Children, Optimistic, Views

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Optimistic, Demand, Losing

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• ...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

  Kristin Hunter

  Optimistic, Wish, World

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• Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Dreamer, Optimist

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Clothes, Dreamer

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

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• Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

  Alan Cohen

  Leadership, Motivation, May

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• The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

  Brian Tracy

  Optimistic, Successful, Long

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals”, p.63, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Investing, Bulls

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• There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

  Gloria Estefan

  Moving, Optimistic, Events

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• If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Philosophy, Sisterhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

  Charlie Pierce

  Optimistic, Despair, Tough

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• Optimism is the true moral courage

  Ernest Shackleton

  Moral, Moral Courage

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• Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

  Oliver Pell

  Reality, Psychological Disorders, Psychological

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