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Optimism Quotes


"Out of difficulties grow miracles."


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


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


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


"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."


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


"The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable."


"Fantasize that everything around you is bringing you LUCK!"


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


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



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


"The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey."


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


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


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


"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."



"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 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."


"I never see problems. I always see challenges. By definition, a problem is something unwelcome or harmful, whereas a challenge is a contest. Contests can be won; and, I love winning."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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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