The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical.… — Harry Nilsson Copy Share Image
Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper… — Happy Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
“Gratitude not only allows you to enjoy the present, but keeps you looking forward to the future. . . . Gratitude fuels… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“A schlemihl is a schlemihl. What can you "make" out of one? What can one make out of himself? You reach a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
A company that was I think the one I learned the most from in Wall Street 2, just in terms of my… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
Things change, people change. Sometimes it sucks and sometimes its for the best. But it's hard to keep your head up when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ontario’s colleges and universities offer our young people life-changing opportunities. With an education, you can go anywhere and do anything. I am… — Kathleen Wynne Copy Share Image
Obama has been trying or was trying to transform the country away from the way it was founded, and it is causing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I have optimism and am incredibly hopeful for the future. I often say to friends, it's always darkest before the dawn, and… — Lawrence English Copy Share Image
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life may become difficult, but one thing you should remember that as there are bad times in life there will be good… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Blessed are those who see opportunity even in failure. Winners always adjust the situation according to the demand & commands every eventuality… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason, although we may not understand it at the time, if you hang in there, all the pieces… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“The cycle of optimism and euphoria leading to greed, fear and capitulation, giving way to hope and building back to optimism, drives… — Coreen T. Sol Copy Share Image
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the… — Michael Diamond Copy Share Image
My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt better,… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I have faith in the pendulum swinging. Right now it's so far against the wall that it can't go any farther; it's… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“I suspect that self-deception is similar to its cousins, overconfidence and optimism, and as with these other biases, it has both benefits… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world. . . . The symptoms of those infected include attacks of… — Jules Marshall Copy Share Image
Optimism is key. if you expect the worst, the worst will happen. You are your own stress, you are your won anger,… — Shizzle Monkey Copy Share Image
Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
“Use every person's skill set to the fullest. Both optimists and pessimists contribute. An optimist invents the hot air balloon, and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The lens of Pessimism ethics; pierces the illusions of optimism, reminds us that pain and evil are not mere outliers but prevailing… — Carson Anekeya Copy Share Image
“of everything, for better or worse. A cheater remains a cheater in the same way that an optimist remains an optimist. An… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
