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• Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

  Robert Jordan

  Sometimes, Something New, Horrible

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.235, Macmillan

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• As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

  Tom Hanks

  Giving Up, Moving, Order

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• Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Twitter post from May 08, 2013

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• Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Errors, Ideas

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• The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Positive, Funny Inspirational, Attitude

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.52, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Optimism, Scar, Pessimist

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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• I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know - secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time - that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Mean, Long

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• Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

  Sara Blakely

  Knowing, Scare, Done

  "INSTANT MBA: 'If You Do Things Without Knowing How They've Always Been Done, You're Guaranteed To Do Them Differently'" by Patricia Laya, www.businessinsider.com. July 25, 2011.

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• The price of greatness is responsibility.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.292, A&C Black

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Usual

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol.2, 1920-1924”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

  Voltaire

  Optimism, Maintaining, Candide

  Francois Marie Arouet De Voltaire (2004). “Candide (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.48, Sparklesoup LLC

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• The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

  Jennifer James

  Grace, Quality, Culture

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Success, Money, Business

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• Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Being Thankful, World, Duty

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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• Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

  Craig Sager

  Reality, Expectations, Accepting

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

  Mary Browne

  Motivational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

  James Stephens

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Writing

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• If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

  Voltaire

  World, Candide, Ifs

  Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

  David Hume

  Men

  David Hume (2006). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.595, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Optimism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3101, Delphi Classics

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• To ask the hard question is simple.

  W. H. Auden

  Simple, Brainstorming, Hard Questions

  Poems (1933) no. 27

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• In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

  David Landes

  Positive, Success, Attitude

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• Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

  Mark Twain

  Optimism, Dreamer, Optimist

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• There is no such thing as expecting too much.

  Susan Cheever

  Too Much, Expecting, Expecting Too Much

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