Optimist Quotes - Page 7

• You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different than the present, and the present is past, as we say it. I think I, by nature, am an optimist. Maybe I was driven to escape from my childhood and to be something, create my own world or career the way I wanted it to be. And I keep doing that in very interesting ways.

  Les Wexner

  Past, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

  William DeWitt Hyde

  Opportunity, Optimism, Growth

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• I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air

  Gunnar Staalesen

  Air, Levels, Way

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• I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

  Thomas Buckner

  Optimism, Half, Pessimist

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• We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Entering, Periods, Dangerous

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• Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Growing Up, Successful

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• I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

  Yanni

  Choices, Stupidity

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• Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Real, Believe

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• In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Successful, Victory

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

  Helen Keller

  Age, Tribes, Maldives

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.134, Matthew Gordon

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• I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

  Jodi Kantor

  Real, Believe, Government

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• If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Depressing, Thinking, Cheerful

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• I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

  Harold Wilson

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• A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women's breast milk. My wife's breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an optimist. I'm like, well, maybe it's making my child fireproof.

  Greg Giraldo

  Children, Fire, Wife

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• Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

  Richard Lewontin

  Work Out, Gravity, Currents

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

  Joe Posnanski

  Lines, Pessimist

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• To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspiration, Achievement, Challenges

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• Let optimists rule the world.

  Lauryn Hill

  World

  "New Again: Lauryn Hill". Interview with Genevieve Glass and Maxwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Needs, Sometimes, Pessimist

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin

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  I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

  Aziz Ansari

  Life Is, Moments, Parts Of Life

  "Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: “elusive and sadly ephemeral”". Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Mind, Movement

  "The Victorian Age in Literature". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists, p. 73, 1913.

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• The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

  Eugene Wigner

  Uncertain, Regard

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• we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suicide, Chance, Study

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.169, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

  Todd Solondz

  Doctors, Optimism, World

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• Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

  Jeanette Lee

  Heart, Notes, Ibsen

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