Optimistic Quotes - Page 39

• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

  Arundhati Roy

  Motivational, Faith, Breathing

  David Barsamian, Arundhati Roy (2004). “The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews”, p.11, South End Press

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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, Eye, Optimism

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• I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Believe, Optimism, Life Is

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• I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Focus, Wealth

  "Money Not the End Goal for Successful Men". Book by Andrew Leckey, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2008.

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• We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Heartache, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

  Peter Ustinov

  Hope, Wisdom, Believe

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

  Simone Weil

  Kindness, Mean People, Hurtful

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.72, Psychology Press

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• Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

  Rick Steves

  Positivity, Stay Positive, Ifs

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• We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

  James Redfield

  Miracle, Shapes, Inspired

  James Redfield (2009). “Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight”, p.168, Hachette UK

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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, Remember You

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

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• Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

  Ambrose Bierce

  White, Optimism, Black

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Strength, Keys

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• The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, People, Doubt

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• there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

  Stephen King

  Long, Optimism, Survival

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

  Gennifer Choldenko

  Games, Play, Giving

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• No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

  Randy Pausch

  Good Morning, Good Day, Adversity

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

  Norton Juster

  Long, Impossible, Phantom Tollbooth

  The Phantom Tollbooth (p. 247)

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• I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

  Neal Shusterman

  Inspiring, Failure, Ambition

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Dreamer, May

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

  Dylan Thomas

  Real, Dirty, People

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

  William James

  Acting, Way, Action

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.424, Courier Corporation

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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