Optimism Quote by Alice Munro

“It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.”

— Mark Scandrette

“There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they…

— Margaret Heffernan

“To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and their control…

— Ryan Holiday

“Compulsively tidy people, one is told, are always wiping the slate clean, trying to give themselves what life denies all of us, a fresh…

— Paul Scott

“You can tell a lot about individuals by how they treat the people they believe are beneath them.”

— A.J. Mendez Brooks

“Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people…

— Agnostic Zetetic

“For the fact is that there is no humiliation so great that one should not accept it with unconcern, knowing that at the end…

— Marcel Proust

“We cling to our ideas about the world, feeling insecure without them. It's why we sometimes pretend we're certain when we're not, often with…

— Eran Dror

“They are often extremely competent people who are committed to doing things very well and have a fear of making mistakes and being human.…

— Patrick J. Carnes

“ambitious people awe some and terrify others!”

— Ali Vali

“Remain vigilant and try diligently not to succumb to the soul-sucking, mind-numbing, ill-mannered attitudes that seem so prevalent in the world today.”

— Susan C. Young