Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
“Making a decision based on fear is like painting a self-portrait of someone else.” — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
Optimism leads to investment, and anything that our government can do to reinforce optimism in our economy is good. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
“A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
If you prepare for the worst but hope for the best, you will rarely be disappointed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. — Julian Tuwim Copy Share Image
I don't know what tomorrow might bring, but I'm still hoping no matter what it is, it's gonna be better than today. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works! — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Expecting or hoping that things will turn out well will surely turn them well if you keep a tendency of being optimistic. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
Life wants to watch you screw things up, break hearts, do stupid things! But don't let life bring you down! Because there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It might get a little harder before it gets easier. But it will get better, you just gotta make it through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Paretsky detailed in her short memoir Writing in an Age of Silence (2007), early optimism buoyed by the civil rights movement… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the… — Robin Givhan Copy Share Image
“It is noted that from 1967 to 1995 essays on negative emotions far outnumbered those on positive emotions in the psychological literature.… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
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