Optimism Quotes - Page 28

• In "Mother-Father-God," I talk about how the new thought movement led me to be superstitious. I think that might resonate with a lot of Americans, the superstition around optimism, like 'don't say anything negative' because you might jinx yourself with your thinking.

  Sarah Gerard

  Thinking, Say Anything, New Thought

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The risk is that you've got a vast majority of the electorate saying that they believe the country is going seriously in the wrong direction. But the message here will be hope and optimism and also underscoring the history nature of this, with a woman taking the - a major party nomination for the first time.

  Jonathan Karl

  Country, Party, Believe

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Enemy, Democracy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Hydrogen Bomb, Bombs

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• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

  Francis Bacon

  Patience, Soul, Possession

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• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

  J. G. Ballard

  Order, Political, Machines

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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• The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

  Joyce Brothers

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

  "Business Class : Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work" by Jacqueline Whitmore, (p. 25), 2005.

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  Edmund Burke

  Time, Smart, Inspiration

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 73

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• It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

  John Burroughs

  Believe, Mind, Belief

  John Burroughs (1900). “Writings: The light of day”

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• You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 04, 2012

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• Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Doubt, Literature, Temples

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.130

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• The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

  Mitch Daniels

  Jobs, Ambition, Risk

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

  Kirk Douglas

  What If, Speech, Matter

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

  Steve Earle

  Children

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• So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

  Dave Eggers

  Creativity, Ideas, Space

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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Letting Go, Progress, Holding On

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

  Ron Fournier

  Views, Years, America

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Prayer, Cancer

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

  John Grogan

  Loyalty, Dog, Quality

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• At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

  William Hague

  Rights, Government, Law

  "Libya air strikes". Live coverage of the continuing military action in Libya, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.

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• I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

  Tom Hanks

  Thinking, Cynicism, Concepts

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• Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Teacher, Attitude

  William Hazlitt (1889). “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical”

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