Optimism Quotes

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Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping. — Augusten Burroughs
In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being… — Augusten Burroughs
I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are. — Tony Kushner
Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal. — Chuck Palahniuk
In the eulogy by the graveside, I told everyone how my sister and I used to sing to each other on our birthday. I told… — Nicholas Sparks
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. — Stephen King
I wished I could share my own optimism. — Jasper Fforde
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. — Alain de Botton
But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning… — Alexandra Bracken
To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances… — Brennan Manning
Sanguine chuckled. "I like you, boy. You got optimism in these bones. I like you so much that I ain't gonna tell you what I… — Derek Landy
Oh, dear Hazel.â€ Aphrodite folded her fan. â€œSuch optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war… — Rick Riordan
Iâ€™m not interested in blind optimism, but Iâ€™m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, â€˜This is not… — Colum McCann
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting… — Zig Ziglar
As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead. — Bill Gates
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into… — Ralph Marston
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. — Robert Foster Bennett

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