Optimism Quotes

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Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next. — Will Smith
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. — Kin Hubbard
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. — Earl Weaver
The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness,… — Wilferd Peterson
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness… — Joseph Sobran
Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals. — Robert Foster Bennett
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step… — Alexander Graham Bell
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already… — Louise Brown
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals,… — Colin Powell
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering. — Mata Amritanandamayi
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an… — Hans Hofmann
I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country. — Narendra Modi
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. — Ellen Willis
Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the… — Bronislaw Malinowski
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. — Hans Hofmann
Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today. — Dwight Howard
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which… — Lord Chesterfield
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty… — Bernard Williams

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