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Optimism Quotes


"Out of difficulties grow miracles."


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


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


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


"I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there, it's there waiting to be noticed."


"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."


"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."


"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."



"Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it."


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"I see a New York that is once again the empire state."


"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."


"Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity."


"There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism."
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