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I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt. -- Zig Ziglar
Optimistic curiosity and persistent goal oriented action bring more success than anything else. -- Debasish Mridha
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. -- George Bernard Shaw
Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light. -- Shmuley Boteach
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
Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference. -- Daniel Kahneman
Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself. -- Thom Yorke
Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life. -- Martin Seligman
Fun, that's the word I keep on using. That's the word I worry about when other writer's scripts get too dark. Optimistic. Fun. And to be optimistic and have fun there's got to be a darkness there. I think that's a very British attitude. -- Russell T Davies
Pessimism never won any battle. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. -- William James
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. -- Dalai Lama
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. -- Victor Hugo
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life... -- Walt Disney
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise -- Oscar Wilde
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. -- Elbert Hubbard
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. -- Antonio Gramsci
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -- Carol Burnett
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. -- Winston Churchill
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. -- Coco Chanel
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. -- Khalil Gibran
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. -- Robert Breault
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. -- Albert Einstein
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
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.) -- John Holdren
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. -- Charles R. Swindoll
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. -- Daniel Kahneman
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. -- Carl Rogers
It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things. -- Tom DeLonge
I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination. -- Tyler, The Creator
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out. -- Hillary Clinton
I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism. -- Jon Anderson
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. -- Emmet Fox
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis. -- Christopher Reeve
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. -- Martha Beck
I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic. -- Damon Albarn
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
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. -- E. B. White
Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected. -- Kid Cudi
Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way. -- Steve Aoki
If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you. -- Randy Pausch
I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama! -- Charlie Crist
It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. -- Steve Jobs
I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh. -- Daniel Gilbert
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. -- Michelle Williams
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out. -- Martin Seligman
Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff. -- Lewis Black
I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places. -- Eric Schmidt
In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. -- Ray Bradbury
I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try not to make plans just because I know how unpredictable life can be. Especially the life of an actor, and especially the life of an actor on 'Glee.' I just want to be happy and healthy and surrounded by people I love, as cheesy as it sounds. -- Melissa Benoist
Be optimistic. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I always remain optimistic. -- Chuck D
Perhaps I'm just optimistic. -- Hal Hartley
Daring life, optimistic living. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I am basically optimistic. -- Dalai Lama
I'm an optimistic person. -- Clayton Christensen
Surround yourself with optimistic people. -- Zig Ziglar
I am enthusiastic and optimistic. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm a generally optimistic person. -- Alison Brie
I'm confident and really optimistic. -- Saku Koivu
Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises. -- Christopher Walken
I am an optimistic lady. -- Julie Andrews
My mom is positive and optimistic. -- Lindsey Vonn
I'm really optimistic in the mornings. -- Kary Mullis
Be optimistic about everything in life. -- Michael Jordan
People are optimistic about the future. -- Helen Clark
Analysts have always been overly optimistic. -- David Dreman
Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful. -- Conor McGregor
I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated. -- Eddie Vedder
Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch. -- Eric Kripke
I always try to be cautiously optimistic. -- David Walton
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
I don't feel very optimistic in London. -- David Bailey
I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic. -- Nat Hentoff
We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic. -- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
I get more optimistic as I get older. -- Richard Flanagan
Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power. -- William McDonough
America needs optimistic leadership to revive national soul. -- Mike Huckabee
I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic. -- Paul Begala
Things are going to get better. Be optimistic. -- Bob Dole
I was always a very happy, optimistic person. -- Trey Parker
I think that I'm a really optimistic person. -- Jason Rezaian
I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful. -- Fay Vincent
I always was and always will be optimistic. -- Preston Sturges
I am optimistic about the future of music. -- George Crumb
I do think that I am generally optimistic. -- Barack Obama
If stocks are optimistic, then so am I. -- Lawrence Kudlow
In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important! -- Terry Jones
These are optimistic pieces, travel pieces that go anywhere -- Tommy Hilfiger
I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona. -- John McCain
Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic... yes. -- Frank Lowy
Stop being so" optimistic. It's getting on my nerves. -- Stephenie Meyer
I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act. -- Michael Cunningham
I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic. -- Colin Farrell
No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person. -- Harmon Killebrew
I think that I am a deeply optimistic person. -- Julia Roberts
Most people are highly optimistic most of the time. -- Daniel Kahneman
Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive! -- Robert Indiana
Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people. -- Martin Seligman
I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken. -- Mamie Gummer
I'm optimistic about the possibility of having a positive attitude -- Stuart Blythe
Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success. -- Dalai Lama
There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. -- Barbara Demick
Stay optimistic to the point where people question your sanity. -- Matthew Barnett
I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming! -- Lydia Lunch
We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic. -- Rush Limbaugh
A developer who is not optimistic shouldn't be a developer. -- Harry Triguboff
I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. -- Cameron Sinclair
Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory. -- Sylvester Stallone
It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic. -- Vance Havner

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