Optimist Quotes - Page 6

• I'm an optimist.
  I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past.
  And I also believe I have a role in that.
  The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change.
  I can do better.
  If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Children, Optimism, Born

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

  Max Lerner

  Possibility, Pessimist

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• Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Success, Positive Thinking

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• [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

  Rex Stout

  Pleasant Surprises, Pessimist, Surprise

  Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline

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• A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

  Martin Seligman

  Weather, Tragedy, Pessimist

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.312, Vintage

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• People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.'

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, People

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• But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails

  William Arthur Ward

  Taken, Climbing, Wind

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• Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

  Thomas Friedman

  Change, Optimistic, Optimism And Pessimism

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• An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

  Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

  Men, Two, Hammocks

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• Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

  Shimon Peres

  Life, Death, Positive Thinking

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• I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Laughter, Believe, Wonderful

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• I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Life, Jesus, Optimistic

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• I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Thinking, Good Will

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• I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

  William Golding

  Intellectual, Conviction, Pessimist

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.211, Penguin

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• An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Ducks, Optimism, Quacks

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• Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, Ice Cream, Hell

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• I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Argument

  "Obama takes questions on economy". Barack Obama's comments during his first prime time televised news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2009.

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• I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

  Abraham Lincoln

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• This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, "Give up what is evil and give up what is good." What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Real, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.177, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Pessimist, Doughnut, Whole

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• "Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

  Stefano Benni

  Realist, Cynic

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• Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

  Bob Lewis

  Glasses, Air, Water

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• Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

  Jim Valvano

  Attitude, Team, Pessimistic

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