Optimism Quotes

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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage… — Aung San Suu Kyi
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic.… — Jack Layton
The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I… — Annie Lennox
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. — Vince Lombardi
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. — James Russell Lowell
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed… — Orison Swett Marden
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. — Don Marquis
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. — James A. Michener
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. — Toni Morrison
A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed… — Dee Dee Myers
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. — George Jean Nathan
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that… — Harry Nilsson
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. — P.J. O'Rourke
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. — Barack Obama
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. — William Lyon Phelps
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. — Peace Pilgrim
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. — Edgar Allan Poe
The most positive men are the most credulous. — Alexander Pope
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. — Colin Powell

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