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• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

  Bill Vaughan

  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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• The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

  Simon Sinek

  Race, Progress, Ingredients

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Dec 27, 2010

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• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Happiness, Running, Positive Thinking

  "Coolidge: An American Enigma". Book by Robert Sobel, p. 242, 2000.

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• People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

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• To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Motivational, Hands, Looks

  Ten Times One Is Ten ch. 9 (1871)

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• Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

  Corita Kent

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  James Russell Lowell (1892). “Literary and political addresses”

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• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Leadership, Don't Give Up

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• An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

  George Jean Nathan

  Believe, Literature, Way

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• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Happiness, Real

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2124, Delphi Classics

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• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

  Carl Sandburg

  Good Morning, Optimistic, Eye

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• I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Perseverance, Blessed, Stubborn

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

  Jonathan Swift

  Quality, Share, Preacher

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• Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

  Twyla Tharp

  Optimistic, Experience, Degrees

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• Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Inspirational, Hope, Nature

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• The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

  George Will

  Inspirational, Funny, Nice

  George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

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• Comedy is acting out optimism.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Philosophy, Memorable

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

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• The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 22, 2014

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• The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hope, Inspiration, Future

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• Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

  Steven Tyler

  Humor, Vegas, Tunnels

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• We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  James A. Michener (2007). “Chesapeake”, p.278, Ballantine Books

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Heart, Optimistic

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  You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Cheer, Optimistic

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.544, The Floating Press

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