Optimism Quotes - Page 33

• My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.

  Helen Keller

  Two, Facts, World

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

  Zaha Hadid

  Growing Up, Iraq, Progress

  "Zaha Hadid: Pushing the Envelope of Design". Interview with Serena Guen and Alexander Heller, suitcasemag.com. March 22, 2016.

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• I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

  Helen Keller

  Fate, Order, Sun

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

  Berenice Abbott

  Real, People, Unexpected

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• 'Tis always morning somewhere in the world

  Richard Henry Horne

  Morning, World, Headstone

  Richard Henry Horne (1854). “Orion, an epic poem. Austral. ed”, p.107

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• Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

  John F. Kennedy

  Why Not, Asks

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• Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

  William Arthur Ward

  Doubt, Soil, Vaults

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• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

  John McEnroe

  Loss, Important, Lessons

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• Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health.

  Richard Bandler

  Emotional, Healthy, Results

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• You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

  Yanni

  Creative, Mind, Needs

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hope, Architect, Needed

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

  Bill Crawford

  Realistic, Worst, Deals

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• Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

  Marlo Thomas

  Life, Years, Knowing

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• I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

  Ray Kroc

  Years, Campaigns, Bladder

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.15, St. Martin's Griffin

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• If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.

  Stuart Wilde

  Simple, Feelings, World

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.86, Hay House, Inc

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• I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it.

  Ray Kroc

  Years, Would Be, Selling

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• But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.

  John Hench

  Optimistic, Artist, Way

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• Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors.

  Wes Fesler

  Wall, Doors, Pessimist

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• Optimism is my best defense.

  Rod Stewart

  Song, Philosophy, Defense

  Song: Baby Jane, Album: Body Wishes

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• Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

  Nitin Nohria

  Reality, Leader, Pragmatists

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• Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Dream, Crazy, Yesterday

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• I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Promise, One Day, I Promise

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• Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

  Earl Weaver

  Water, Mind, Cheerful

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• Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

  Douglas MacArthur

  Moving, Denial, Faces

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• Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

  Vanna Bonta

  Interruptions, Ideals, Temporary

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