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"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know."

Dorothy Stratten, Canadian Celebrity

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great."

William John Wills, English Scientist

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"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Maya Angelou

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

Unity

"The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?"

Morality

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

Resilience

"I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive."

Life

"If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?"

Society

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

Inspirational

"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."

Character

"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

Wisdom

"When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich."

Creativity

"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"

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