Optimism Quotes
1229 quotes by 798 authors
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Each day provides its own gifts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
— Francis Bacon
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of…
— Lucille Ball
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as…
— J. G. Ballard
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
— Charlotte Bronte
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
— Joyce Brothers
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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get…
— Les Brown
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Light tomorrow with today!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
— Pearl S. Buck
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You can never plan the future by the past.
— Edmund Burke
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe…
— Louisa May Alcott
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
— John Burroughs
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
— Truman Capote
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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the…
— Muhammad Ali
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Winston Churchill
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