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Optimism Quotes

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"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
Walt Whitman
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
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"I decline to accept the end of man."
William Faulkner
"I decline to accept the end of man."
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"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."
Robert Hewison
"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."
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"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
Jean de la Bruyere
"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
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"I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong."
R. A. Salvatore
"I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong."
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"Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."
Voltaire
"Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."
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"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."
Darrell Royal
"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."
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"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."
Henry Rollins
"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."
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"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."
William Ralph Inge
"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."
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"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
Colin Powell
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
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"I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow."
Carol Moseley Braun
"I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow."
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"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
Havelock Ellis
"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
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"If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was."
Norman Ralph Augustine
"If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was."
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"I have no cynicism at all."
Antony Sher
"I have no cynicism at all."
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"It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful."
Charlotte Eriksson
"It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful."
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"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."
James Reston
"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."
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"But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future."
Linda Lingle
"But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future."
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"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe."
Goran Persson
"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe."
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"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."
John Wooden
"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."
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"Keep hoping in tomorrow & one day tomorrow shall manifest your dreams."
Auliq Ice
"Keep hoping in tomorrow & one day tomorrow shall manifest your dreams."
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"Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle."
Wilma Rudolph
"Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle."
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"Comedy is acting out optimism."
Robin Williams
"Comedy is acting out optimism."
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"Turn your frowns into smiles, your tears into laughter, your weaknesses into strengths, your setbacks into opportunities, and your failures into victories."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Turn your frowns into smiles, your tears into laughter, your weaknesses into strengths, your setbacks into opportunities, and your failures into victories."
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"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
Henry Ellis
"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
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"If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was."
Norman Ralph Augustine
"If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was."
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"When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better."
C. S. Lewis
"When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better."
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"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."
Wilma Rudolph
"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."
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"It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting."
Hermann Maier
"It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting."
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"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."
Voltaire
"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."
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"But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way."
John Hench
"But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way."
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"I want to rebuild America."
Carol Moseley Braun
"I want to rebuild America."
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"Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms."
Elizabeth George
"Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms."
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"This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before."
Maya Angelou
"This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before."
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"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."
Edward Steichen
"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."
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"Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow."
Ralph W. Sockman
"Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow."
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"I think Americans want to believe in this country again."
Carol Moseley Braun
"I think Americans want to believe in this country again."
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"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
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"India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples."
Sri Aurobindo
"India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples."
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"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"
Dr. Seuss
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"
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"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."
Eric Sevareid
"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."
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"My sun sets to raise again."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"My sun sets to raise again."
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"Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow."
Seth Godin
"Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow."
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"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."
Douglas Sirk
"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."
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"I find nothing more depressing than optimism."
Paul Fussell
"I find nothing more depressing than optimism."
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"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."
Antonio Gramsci
"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."
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"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
A. E. Housman
"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
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"Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
Helen Keller
"Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
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"I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism."
Herbert Croly
"I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism."
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"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."
William Arthur Ward
"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."
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"There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it."
Carlos Wallace
"There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it."
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