Optimism Quotes - Page 9

• You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Attitude, Optimistic, Simple

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Hero”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Believe, Optimistic

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.275, Vintage

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• I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

  Jim Henson

  Crazy, People, Ridiculous

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• Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Future, Optimistic

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• Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Optimistic, Self, Busy

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• The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Spiritual

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• Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

  Joan Rivers

  Dark, Think Positive, Matter

  "11 Things Joan Rivers Taught Us About Life" by Erin Weinger, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2014.

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• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, Beautiful, Gratitude

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• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Optimistic, Sadness

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 48

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• When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• I approach every problem with optimism.

  Nelson Mandela

  Problem, Approach

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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• Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wise, Hurt, Optimistic

  Knox College Commencement Address, departments.knox.edu. June 03, 2006.

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• You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

  Emmet Fox

  Positive, Niece, Optimistic

  Emmet Fox (1940). “Power Through Constructive Thinking”

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• What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Running, America, Building

  "GOP debaters slam pullout but critical of war". www.cnn.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

  Tom Hanks

  Optimistic, Tolerance, Mind

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• If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Have Faith, Want, Blind

  "Suu Kyi gives Nobel speech in Norway, 21 years later". Interview with Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. June 16, 2012.

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

  Bob Iger

  Important

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• There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

  Jim Leach

  Littles, Pessimism, Cases

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• Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

  Albert Meltzer

  Lasts, Defeated

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• ... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

  Anne Perry

  Heart, Brain, Anticipation

  Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Dancing, Political, Individuality

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