Optimism Quotes

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Pessimism does win us great happy moments. — Max Beerbohm
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… — Joseph Addison
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart. — Elbert Hubbard
The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live… — Hector Hugh Munro
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. — Agnes Repplier
Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And… — Franklin P. Adams
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. — George Santayana
And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and… — Ronald Reagan
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. — Harry Stack Sullivan
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. — Robert Breault
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism .… — Margaret Thatcher
We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It… — Bill Frist
Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Jeannette Walls
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope.… — Dorothy Rowe

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