Optimist Quotes - Page 5

• When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Positive, Attitude, Optimistic

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

  Robert Breault

  Optimistic, Average, Long

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• Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Optimistic, Positivity

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

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• 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

  Believe, Future, Optimistic

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• Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

  Robert Breault

  Reality, Optimism, Clay

  "Attitude Is Everything" by Rita Schiano, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Clever

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

  Jack Nicholson

  School, Years, Class

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• The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Farmers, Stills

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Success, Money, Business

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hope, Optimistic, Fighting

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  Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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• Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Inspiration, Optimistic, Sticks

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• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Attitude, Optimistic

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• I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Optimistic

  Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.299, Columbia University Press

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• An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

  Irv Kupcinet

  Thanksgiving, Optimistic, Turkeys

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• A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

  Leonard Louis Levinson

  Attitude, Optimistic, Dark

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• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

  Bill Vaughan

  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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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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• Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Happiness, Fun, Optimism

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.109, Penguin

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