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Optimism Quotes

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"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
Jean de la Bruyere
"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
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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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"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."
Robert Hewison
"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."
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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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"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."
Henry Rollins
"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."
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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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"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
Oscar Wilde
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
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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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"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."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"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."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do."
Barack Obama
"Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do."
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"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."
Kurt Vonnegut
"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."
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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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"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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"Rejoice in your troubles, all things will work for your good."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Rejoice in your troubles, all things will work for your good."
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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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"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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"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
Colin Powell
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
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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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"Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it."
Joyce Meyer
"Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it."
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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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"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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"I find nothing more depressing than optimism."
Paul Fussell
"I find nothing more depressing than optimism."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I want to rebuild America."
Carol Moseley Braun
"I want to rebuild America."
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"I have no cynicism at all."
Antony Sher
"I have no cynicism at all."
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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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"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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"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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"I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today."
James Callaghan
"I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today."
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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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"I think America is on the right track."
Wayne Allard
"I think America is on the right track."
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"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
Carl Sandburg
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
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"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."
C. S. Lewis
"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."
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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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"I see a New York that is once again the empire state."
Carl Paladino
"I see a New York that is once again the empire state."
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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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"Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity."
Debasish Mridha
"Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity."
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"There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism."
Harry Stack Sullivan
"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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"And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty."
Vernor Vinge
"And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty."
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