“Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
“•Scepticism and pessimism aren’t synonymous. Scepticism calls for pessimism when optimism is excessive. But it also calls for optimism when pessimism is… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
Accept this moment, without judgment or needless worry. Remind yourself that all is well, and that you can handle whatever comes along. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You're confident he'll have found him, then?" "Well, no. I didn't sat that." "If there's one thing I hate," Volyova said, looking… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
NO MORE SAYING I CANT, ONLY I CAN. EVEN I THINK I CAN IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH. YOU KNOW YOU CAN. ANYTHING… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties, but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album… — Mark Hoppus 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“Gratitude not only allows you to enjoy the present, but keeps you looking forward to the future. . . . Gratitude fuels… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
Nobody is aware of what future holds, to take the advantage of uncertainty is to hope for the best and prepare for… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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
Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results,… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“People who were personally concerned about a better world, came to Washington, were drawn to it. Even though where we were going… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The late 1990s were really a moment of still tremendous hope and optimism about the relationship between Russia and the United States. — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image