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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -- Helen Keller
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. -- Brian Tracy
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. -- Mary Lou Retton
Optimism is evidence-based. -- Cornel West
Optimism is cowardice. -- Oswald Spengler
Optimism can be relearnt. -- Marian Keyes
Optimism is my best defense. -- Rod Stewart
Optimism is true moral courage. -- Ernest Shackleton
Optimism is a revolutionary act -- Cameron Crowe
Optimism is lack of information. -- Faina Ranevskaya
Optimism is a competitive advantage. -- Jon Gordon
Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. -- Jeannette Walls
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell
Optimism is the true moral courage -- Ernest Shackleton
Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous. -- Hyman Rickover
Optimism is the foundation of courage. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
Optimism is a cure for many things. -- Michael J. Fox
Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation, -- Robert Noyce
Optimism is the opium of the people. -- Milan Kundera
Optimism is the staunchest worshipper of life. -- Kedar Joshi
Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V. -- James S.A. Corey
Optimism is a faith that leads to success. -- Bruce Lee
Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure. -- Ernest Hemingway
Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer -- Warren Buffett
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. -- Stephen King
Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use. -- Robin Roberts
Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice. -- Shonda Rhimes
Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior. -- Larry Elder
Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated -- Albert Meltzer
I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important! -- Terry Jones
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional. -- Alan Cohen
Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options. -- Robert H. Schuller
Optimism is a huge help when it comes to health. -- Tia Mowry
Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Optimism is the content of small men in high places. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on -- Douglas MacArthur
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment. -- Kent Beck
Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows -- Martin Seligman
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. -- Elbert Hubbard
Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared. -- Arthur Lynch
Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. -- Cyril Connolly
Optimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built. -- Sharon Lechter
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. -- Margaret Atwood
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Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality -- Oliver Pell
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. -- Erich Fromm
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. -- Voltaire
Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions -- Deepak Chopra
Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it. -- James Randall Robison
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. -- Ambrose Bierce
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful. -- Bill Vaughan
Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from. -- Simon Sinek
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. -- Norman Cousins
Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health. -- Richard Bandler
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. -- Nicholas M. Butler
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. -- Nicholas M. Butler
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God. -- Jonathan Kellerman
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. -- Alice Thomas Ellis
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. -- Phillips Brooks
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration. -- Steve Toltz
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer. -- Georges Bernanos
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. -- Steve Toltz
Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks. -- Denis Waitley
Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions. -- Tim Brown
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. -- Daniel Kahneman
There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking. -- David Rakoff
Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly. -- Wes Fesler
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. -- Orison Swett Marden
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. -- William Arthur Ward
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. -- Twyla Tharp
Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health. -- Martin Seligman
Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome -- Hilary Thayer Hamann
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose. -- Earl Weaver
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems. -- Price Pritchett
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. -- Charlie Pierce
Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places? -- Robert Noyce
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work. -- Elon Musk
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 is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success. -- Sri Chinmoy
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. -- Bruce Lee
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery. -- John Kennedy Toole
Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use. -- Horace Fletcher
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. -- Seth Godin
Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair. -- Maggie Gallagher
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. -- Oscar Wilde
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful. -- Martin Seligman
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions. -- Price Pritchett
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
Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are. -- Martin Seligman
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good. -- Helen Keller
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. -- Theodore Roosevelt
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. -- Lucille Ball
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture. -- Mark Ravenhill
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
Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it. -- Gregory David Roberts
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience. -- Alex Steffen
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about what is desired and makes the wait more enjoyable.] -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for. -- NikNak
We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims. -- Bill Frist
Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success. -- Karl Popper
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
Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate. -- Daniel Kahneman
Light tomorrow with today! -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. -- Antonio Gramsci
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. -- Winston Churchill
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. -- Epictetus
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. -- Peace Pilgrim
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -- William Arthur Ward
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -- Anne Frank
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -- Jimmy Dean
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. -- Pearl S. Buck
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. -- Harry S. Truman
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. -- Walt Disney

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