Optimism Quotes

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Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. — David Myers
I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable… — Helen Keller
My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I… — Helen Keller
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies… — Helen Keller
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it,… — Helen Keller
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. — Helen Rowland
Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use. — Horace Fletcher
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has… — James Russell Lowell
Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior. — Larry Elder
Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded… — Leonid Andreyev
Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Optimism is cowardice. — Oswald Spengler
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. — Robert Breault
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? — Robert Breault
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. — Robert Breault
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed. — Robert Breault
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. — Robert Breault
Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options. — Robert H. Schuller
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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