Optimism Quotes

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The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for… — James Gleick
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think… — Martin Seligman
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be… — Martin Seligman
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. — Chauncey Depew
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. — E. Joseph Cossman
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. — Raymond Aron
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of… — Paul J. Meyer
Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life. — Leni Riefenstahl
Optimism is the key. — Will Champion
My optimism for life carried through my work. — John Dyer
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. — Don Marquis
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the… — Fred G. Gosman
I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. — Wole Soyinka
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford… — Kevin Rudd
I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women,… — Hilda Solis
Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not… — John Podhoretz
History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism. — Stephane Hessel
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that… — Tony Judt
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't… — Rosa Parks

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