Optimism Quotes

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that… — Nora Ephron
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. — F. H. Bradley
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find… — John Cheever
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's… — George Santayana
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source… — Jack Layton
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a… — Alfred North Whitehead
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… — Joan Didion
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. — Phyllis McGinley
Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they… — Jonathan Kozol
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for. — Meshell Ndegeocello
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a… — David Limbaugh
Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on… — John Walford
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness,… — Stephen King
Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to… — Edmund Vance Cooke
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back to… — Harvey Broome
It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein… — Gerhard Richter
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer. — Georges Bernanos

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