Optimism Quotes - Page 26

• Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Bones, Break

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• I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

  Natalie Portman

  Children, Thinking, Worst Nightmares

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• I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

  George Meyer

  Coats, Pessimist

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 1, 2004.

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• I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.

  Ben Affleck

  Dad, Father, Kids

  "Ben Affleck: I quit drinking to be good husband". Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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• What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

  Assata Shakur

  Cuba, Impressed

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• Some people grew up in the '70s, powerful, beautiful memories of the '70s which to me is one of the worst decades. It has something to do with that. Has something to with the birth of rock 'n' roll, and something to do with those American cars. an incredible design. There was so much optimism at that time and it must leak into the process.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Memories, Powerful

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• Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a false development-optimism. Nothing exists which ever becomes better. Everything stays the same. Somehow, there is nothing. That is so sad. Nothing to come to. Everything is an illusion. A very sweet illusion.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Sweet, Struggle, People

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• The crazy thing is that practical solutions exist. We don't need to perpetuate these problems. I think our hardest job is to convey a sense of optimism, show how things can get better, and get people to invest in solutions.

  Mark Powell

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Adventure, Destiny, Men

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• When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Issues, Choices, Analysis

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• I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still do them just as well. That's very important to success - just to have a positive outlook. I know it's not easy to do that.

  Jim Abbott

  Believe, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.

  Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

  Leadership, Christian, Adversity

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• Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Opportunity

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.57, Moody Publishers

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• Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

  Felix Adler

  God, Religious, Real

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• There is a good side to every situation.

  David J. Schwartz

  Bad Day, Sides, Situation

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• An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.

  Felix Adler

  Optimistic, Light, Shadow

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• I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.

  Robin Roberts

  Grateful, Believe, Moving

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• Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

  Virgil

  Music, Singing, Existential

  "Eclogues (Book IX)". Book by Virgil, 37 BC.

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• My optimism for life carried through my work.

  John Dyer

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• Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

  Gary Johnson

  Winning, Election, Should

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• Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

  Seth

  Believe, Visions Of The Future, People

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• Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

  Robin Roberts

  Stronger, Use, Muscles

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

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• I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Leadership, House, Creative

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• For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

  Scott Adams

  Attitude, Nuts, Records

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.118, Penguin

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• Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim - like that of science - was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.

  Colin Wilson

  Taken, Optimistic, Men

  "Introduction to the New Existentialism". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 96, 1966.

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