Optimist Quotes - Page 13

• I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Believe, Thinking, Expression

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• I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Pain, Our World, Joy

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• An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Positive, Happiness, Success

  "Adventurous America: A Study of Contemporary Life and Thought". Book by Edwin Mims, 1929.

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• Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Peace, War, Nuclear

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• Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

  Mark Twain

  Pessimistic, Pessimist

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.142, Chartwell

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• Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

  Paul Tough

  Trying, Events, Looks

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

  Victor Cherbuliez

  Optimism, Imagine, Pessimist

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• An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

  Heinz Ruhmann

  Men, Optimism, Half

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• An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Glasses, Optimism, Needs

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• Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

  Mark Twain

  Optimism

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Change, Believe, Order

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 05, 1991.

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• When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Thinking, Doors, Hearing

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.172, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• ...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.' If you just can't make that work for you, refocus your attention...Turn your attention in a totally different direction for the time being. Replace the distressing thoughts with other ideas. Distract yourself.

  Price Pritchett

  Gratitude, Ideas, Style

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• An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Reality, Track

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• I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

  Amiri Baraka

  Believe, Winning, People

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• Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

  Harvey Mackay

  Positive, Success, Optimistic

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

  John McGahern

  Empires, Window, Building

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• I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Believer

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• ...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Breakfast

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn't always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he'll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Attitude, Work Out, Energy

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

  Stephen King

  People, May, Realist

  Stephen King (2015). “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

  Colum McCann

  Cynicism, Easy, Cynic

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

  Christian D. Larson

  Looks, Brightness, Sides

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.285, Penguin

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• Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

  Robert Breault

  Dance, Steps, Disaster

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• Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Moving, Twilight

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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