Optimism Quotes - Page 2

• Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem

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• Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

  Christian D. Larson

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Success Of Others

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

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• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude, Destiny

  "Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind: How to Empower Your Dream". Book by Ron Rubin, Stuart Avery Gold (p. 86), March 15, 2005.

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• I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

  Joan Blades

  Country, Real, Way

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• It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

  Robin Roberts

  Believe, Best Is Yet To Come, Optimist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

  Walt Disney

  Uplifting, Gratitude, Moving Forward

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Melania Trump Quote Sounds Suspiciously Similar To Marla Maples" by Alana Horowitz Satlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 04, 2016.

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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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• Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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

  Positive, Strength, Inspiring

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

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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, Investing

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

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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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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Sunset, Hands, Two

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• I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

  Paul Fussell

  Depression, Depressing, Optimistic

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• Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Men

  Notebook, Dec. 1902

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• Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

  Voltaire

  Optimistic, Madness, Miserable

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• When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

  John F. Kennedy

  Positive, Optimistic, Thinking

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• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

  Rene Descartes

  Running, Attitude, Optimistic

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• Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Attitude, Two

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• As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Optimistic, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.712, Simon and Schuster

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• The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

  Peter Ustinov

  Hope, Wisdom, Believe

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

  Christian D. Larson

  Health, Optimistic, Prosperity

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

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• If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Positive, Encouraging, Dark

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