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• Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.

  George Weigel

  Glasses, Filters, Looks

  George Weigel (2015). “Letters to a Young Catholic”, p.100, Basic Books

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• To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
  That you have no time to criticise others,
  To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
  And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Optimistic, Giving

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Finish every day and be done with it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Optimistic, New Day

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• Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

  Arnold Bennett

  Pessimism, Pessimist, Used

  'Things that have Interested Me' (1921) 'Slump in Pessimism'

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• There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Earth

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• Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Strong, Optimistic

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• There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

  Euripides

  Healing, Chance, Fortune

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Euripides, circa 412 BCE.

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• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”

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• Optimism is the foundation of courage.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Life, Appreciation, Courage

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• My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

  Jack Layton

  Love, Inspirational, Hope

  Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

  Roberto Rossellini

  Evil, Opinion, Pessimist

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• Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.

  Helen Keller

  Spring, Heart, Sea

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

  Robert Breault

  Sometimes, Said, Mistaken

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• Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Children, Born, Optimist

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

  Heinz Ruhmann

  Men, Half, Optimist

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• I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

  Stan Dale

  Opposites, Plot, Paranoid

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• What you must do, do cheerfully.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.167, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.

  Harvey Mackay

  Uplifting, Positive Thinking, Way

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• The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fundamentals

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.214, Shambhala Publications

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• There's too much negativity in the world. Staying positive is a better investment.

  Mark Kostabi

  Stay Positive, Negativity, World

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• Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Weed, Dwelling, Negative

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• Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

  Lauren Mackler

  Thinking, Addiction, Negative

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• Light tomorrow with today!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.494, Delphi Classics

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