“Make the most of the best and the best of the worst, and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Instead of worrying about what could go wrong, change your thoughts to what could go right. When you change the negative thought… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
If you want to succeed, learn from your mistakes, live for today & strive for success, hope for tomorrow & positive things… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving,… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
Always believe something wonderful is going to happen. Even with all the ups and downs, never take a day for granted. Smile,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I l0ve it when people judge me negatively..especially the part wheRE they f0und 0ut that they were abs0lutely wr0ng.. **FUck u haters. — Meggy Copy Share Image
When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
“I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“When you have a healthy self-esteem, qualities such as likeability, confidence, trustworthiness, compassion, sense of humor, empathy, and optimism all serve to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“She knew by some sure instinct that when you had come right up against it, as Jeff had, you had no use… — Elswyth Thane Copy Share Image
“Medicinal Spirit, Inside Mirror Therapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels, No one knows how to upscale another,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Can the West regain its optimism? If the answer is no – and most of the portents are skewing the wrong way… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after… — Bibi Bourelly Copy Share Image
“she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism,… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“Looking back, I can see that one of the things my friends had to suffer out of affection for me was my… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is always calm in the midst of chaos, love in the midst of hate, and hope in the midst of despair.… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Don't look back at the path you have already walked. Look forward to the path you haven't walked, the future is much… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“Unbridled optimism comes across as salesmanship; it seems dishonest somehow, and as a consequence it’s met with skepticism. Everyone is allergic to… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“There are two words that I believe could be completely eradicated from our vocabulary – “I can’t.” These two words are so… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
The pessimist says opportunities are NO WHERE. The optimist says opportunities are NOW HERE. Both see the same words, but read it… — RVM Copy Share Image
A negative thinker makes everything worse, heavier, and harder. A positive thinker makes everything better, lighter, and easier. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the optimism, the boundless confidence of a society that had not yet seen or imagined the world wars, the belief that humankind… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve. — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for,… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
“Know your limits, but don't be afraid to set the bar a little higher each time so that eventually you will be… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Complaining today about yesterday will not make tomorrow any better. Today is new opportunity, a new chance for a new beginning. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
“He'll have that scar forever." "Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?" "Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Our struggles make us stronger, our experiences make us wiser, and our past makes us realize that we are meant to go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“328An optimism which is exclusively built on evolution is always transmuted into pessimism if one ponders a little more deeply.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image