Optimism Quotes

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The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to… — Joseph Conrad
It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There… — Dalai Lama
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work. — Elon Musk
Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality. — Joe Kraus
Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible. — Daisaku Ikeda
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence… — Helen Keller
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian… — David M. Raup
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. — Jim Leach
Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth. — Charles A. Reich
Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told… — Shalom Auslander
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when oneâ€™s groin greets… — C.D. Payne
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only… — Joyce Johnson
Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism… — Josemaria Escriva
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged… — B. C. Forbes
I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me. — Jim Henson
Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places? — Robert Noyce
When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce… — Kevin J. Anderson
I was also built from delusional optimism and folly. — A.S. King
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed — Kin Hubbard
Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes… — Richard Rodriguez

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