Blind Optimism Quotes

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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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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”

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• 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

  Funny, Sarcastic, Optimism

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.488, Wordsworth Editions

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• Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

  Richard DeVos

  Positive, Smile, Hope

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• If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Optimism, Have Faith, Want

  "Suu Kyi gives Nobel speech in Norway, 21 years later". Interview with Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. June 16, 2012.

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• An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  1965 Quoted in CBS News tribute,14 Jan.

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• I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Believe, Optimistic, Optimism

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• Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

  David Myers

  Fall, Pride, Optimism

  David G. Myers (2008). “Intuition: Its Powers and Perils”, p.85, Yale University Press

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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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• Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

  John Bishop

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.

  Colum McCann

  Optimism, Darkness, Sometimes

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• May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

  Winston Churchill

  Pain, Giving, Optimism

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• I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Long, Victory

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Thinking, Knowing

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• Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Destiny, Men

  Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 3, 2017.

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• I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.

  Chris Ware

  Uplifting, Depressing, Disappointment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

  Drew Houston

  Optimism, Entrepreneur, Tolerance

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• Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Destiny, Men

  Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa

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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Optimism, Chance, Anticipation

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• I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.

  Taylor Swift

  Self, Optimism, Doubt

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• You know, you have to start with hope...you don't get anywhere in this country without hope. So it's a necessity. What Barack says is that people have to understand hope isn't just blind optimism. It isn't passive. It isn't just sitting there waiting for things to get better. Hope is the vision that you have to have. It's the inspiration that moves people into action...There are more people engaged in this political process in this year than we've seen in my lifetime. And it is all because of hope because people believe in the possibility of something unseen.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Believe, Moving

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• I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Fighting, Talking

  Barack Obama's Victory Speech in Chicago, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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