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Optimism Quotes


"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."


"Out of difficulties grow miracles."


"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."


"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."


"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."


"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."


"It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful."


"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."


"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."


"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe."


"Turn your frowns into smiles, your tears into laughter, your weaknesses into strengths, your setbacks into opportunities, and your failures into victories."


"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."


"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."


"Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms."


"This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before."


"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."


"I think Americans want to believe in this country again."


"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."


"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."



"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."


"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."


"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."



"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."


"There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it."
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