Optimism Quotes - Page 10

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

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• What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

  Bob Iger

  Important

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• ... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

  Anne Perry

  Heart, Brain, Anticipation

  Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

  Albert Meltzer

  Lasts, Defeated

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• Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

  Todd Solondz

  Doctors, World, May

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• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  Natan Sharansky

  Successful, Democracy, Literature

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• There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Dancing, Political, Individuality

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• It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

  Earle Brown

  Reflection, Numbers, People

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• No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sides, Eyesight, Persons

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• Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

  James Branch Cabell

  Optimistic, Labels, World

  The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Stars, Optimistic

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

  Christian D. Larson

  Mistake, Optimistic, Past

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mistake, Past, Worry

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• Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

  Nelson Mandela

  Moving, Optimistic, Feet

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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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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• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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

  Robert Breault

  Reality, Clay, Realist

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

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  Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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• In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

  David Landes

  Positive, Success, Attitude

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  Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership

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• But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

  Linda Lingle

  Past, Years, Two

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• The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

  Brian May

  Bridges, Emotion, Creation

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• My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

  Abdul Kalam

  Views, Imagination, Age

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• And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

  Vernor Vinge

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

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• Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Progress, Energy, Spirit

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