Being Optimistic Quotes - Page 3

• We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Optimistic, Effort, Pessimist

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• I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

  Patrick Marber

  Optimistic, Men, Thinking

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ambition, Optimistic, Capacity

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• Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

  Bob Dole

  Optimistic, Get Better

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

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• I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

  Nick Cannon

  Optimistic, People, Trying

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• I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

  Fay Vincent

  Optimistic, Hopeful, I Can

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• One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

  John Perry Barlow

  Optimistic, May, Dread

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• When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

  Eugene Odum

  Optimistic, Challenges, Together

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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• The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Optimistic, Night, Negativity

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• There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

  Barbara Demick

  Optimistic, Survival, Instinct

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.60, Granta

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• I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

  Nat Hentoff

  Optimistic

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• Turbulence is a condition that we all experience during a flight when the plane is bouncing around by competing air currents. By analogy, the economy may bounce around a lot because of competing currents of public moods and investments. One week everyone might be optimistic and then suddenly something happens to turn everyone into pessimists. Investment dries up and investors become risk averse. A sudden piece of good news then turns around the public mood.

  Philip Kotler

  Optimistic, Air, Risk

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Heart, Optimistic, Independent

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• I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.

  Philippa Perry

  Flower, Optimistic, Talking

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• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  Ofra Haza

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Optimistic, People, Events

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.161, Penguin

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• I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

  Graeme Souness

  Jobs, Optimistic, Thinking

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• You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Optimistic, Acceptance

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• In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.

  Henry Sy

  Integrity, Optimistic, Opportunity

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• It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

  Tupac Shakur

  Lying, Optimistic, Rapper

  Song: How Long Will They Mourn Me?

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• I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

  Jon Anderson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Optimism

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• The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

  David Attenborough

  Optimistic, Birth Rate, Giving

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• It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

  Beth Riesgraf

  Optimistic, Ideas, Knowing

  "Beth Riesgraf Talks About 'Leverage,' Filming in Portland, and Her 'Adrenaline Junkie' Character". Interview with Kristi Turnquist, www.oregonlive.com. August 18, 2012.

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• Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

  Bill Bryson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Balance

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

  Robin Roberts

  Optimistic, Thinking, Order

  Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers (2014). “Everybody's Got Something”, p.32, Hachette UK

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