Optimistic Quotes - Page 7

• ...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

  Kristin Hunter

  Optimism, Wish, World

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• Out of difficulties grow miracles.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Moving On, Hope

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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 kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

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• Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.12, CLC Publications

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• It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 03, 2014

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  If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

  Jack Dixon

  Motivational, Change, Basketball

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  "Nation: Madam Candidate", content.time.com. February 7, 1964.

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• Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Life And Love, Ambition

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• Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.

  Michael Ealy

  Inspirational, Monday, Lying

  Twitter post from Jun 4, 2012

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• You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Sep 18, 2012

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• You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams.

  Dara Torres

  Inspirational, Dream, Swimming

  Dara Torres, Elizabeth Weil (2009). “Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life”, p.3, Three Rivers Press

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• If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.

  Nicholas Winton

  Way, Impossible, Humanitarian

  "Saving the Children" with Bob Simon, www.cbsnews.com. September 7, 2014.

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• I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Life, Jesus, Pessimistic

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• Enthusiasm moves the world.

  Arthur Balfour

  Inspirational, Moving, World

  Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7

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• I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

  Leonard Cohen

  Rain, Reality, Thinking

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

  Harry Nilsson

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• "We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

  William Goldman

  Optimism, Doubt, Swamps

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, 1973.

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• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Sports

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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