Optimism Quotes - Page 34

• Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

  Charles A. Reich

  Depth, Fundamentals, Innocence

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.

  Shalom Auslander

  Honesty, Passion, Stubborn

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• Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

  C.D. Payne

  Morning, Giving, Despair

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• Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.

  Joyce Johnson

  Struggle, Order, Humanity

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• Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Struggle, Roots

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• Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Depressing, Brother

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• Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?

  Robert Noyce

  Change, Courage, Adventure

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• When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

  Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.8, ECW Press

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• I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

  A.S. King

  Delusional, Folly, Built

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• Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Life, Spring, Believe

  Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

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• The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

  Margery Allingham

  Healthy, Mind, Healthy Mind

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Fate, Knights, Psychology

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• Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Christian, Heart, Sleep

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Eye, Reality, Joy

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• Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Silly, Humor

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• There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world. . . . The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, lower stress levels and outbreaks of pronoia - the sneaking feeling that someone is conspiring behind their backs to help them.

  Jules Marshall

  Strong, Stress, Community

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• I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, White, Paint

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• You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Happiness, Work, Heart

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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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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