Optimistic Quotes - Page 8

• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Dream, Attitude, Wings

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

  Tamar Myers

  Fifty, Way, Gains

  Tamar Myers (2008). “As the World Churns”, p.82, NYLA

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• What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.

  Jennifer Belle

  Girl, Cheer, Men

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• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

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• We live in the best of all possible worlds

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Optimism

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2008). “Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

  James Branch Cabell

  Optimism, Labels, World

  The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

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• I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.

  Michael Caine

  Regret, Each Day, Lasts

  "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks “Is Anybody There?”". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

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• The biggest obstacle that you can have is all inside your head, so I try every day to be optimistic and keep dreaming about great things!

  Omar Chaparro

  Dream, Trying, Obstacles

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Positive Attitude

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.42

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• Part of what makes me most optimistic is if you look at the attitudes of young people. Across the board, young people are much more comfortable with respecting differences. They are much more comfortable with diversity.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Differences, People

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.

  David J. Schwartz

  Remember You, Remembers You, Situation

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.211, Penguin

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• Learn to cultivate your own garden.

  Voltaire

  Garden

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• What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Self Esteem, Valuable, Values

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• I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Transformation, Rapids

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• I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.

  Maggie Tabberer

  Women, Persons, Knows

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• We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Optimism, Imperfection, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1595, Manonmani Publishers

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• I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?'

  David Miliband

  Son, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.

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• It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

  Charles Osgood

  Country, Reality, Thinking

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• Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Two, Law, Diversity

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.530, Best Books on

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• The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Change, Attitude, Doe

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