Optimism Quotes - Page 4

• 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 inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

  Price Pritchett

  Past, Thinking, Inspire

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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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• When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Fun, Trying, Pay

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1953). “The collected works”

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• It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

  Gilda Radner

  Optimistic, Thinking, Laughing

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Heart, Facts, Inward

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  F. H. Bradley

  Evil, World, Necessary Evil

  'Appearance and Reality' (1893) preface (on optimism)

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• I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

  Lewis Mumford

  Possibility, Pessimist, Optimist

  "Lewis Mumford Remembers". The New York Times, July 6, 1977.

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• I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

  Peter McWilliams

  Glasses, Worry, Half

  Peter McWilliams (1995). “Love 101: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

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• Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.

  Bobby Knight

  Reality, Wish, Negative

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• One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Decision, Risk

  "Daniel Kahneman: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with Michael Schrage, www.strategy-business.com. 2003.

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• Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

  Richard Davidson

  Responsibility, Brain, Influence

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• Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

  Betty Eadie

  Heart, Joy, Negative

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• I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.

  Semir Zeki

  Evil, Upset, Wicked

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• The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

  Naum Gabo

  Creative, Doubt, Mind

  Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

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• There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  Helen Keller

  Ignorance, Indifference, Dangerous

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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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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• He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optimistic, Anxiety, Rich

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• May you live all the days of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

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• An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Glasses, Needs, Half

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• Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

  William James

  Uplifting, Optimistic, Positive Thinking

  "The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature".

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• Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Beautiful, Attitude

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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• I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving Forward

  "Bronte goes pop...", www.harpersbazaar.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

  Norman Cousins

  Positive, Optimistic, Perspective

  "Human Options". Book by Norman Cousins, 1981.

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