Optimism Quotes

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The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved,… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Faith and optimism are contagious. — Thom S. Rainer
I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything. — Thomas Hood
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise… — Wayne Dyer
The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we… — William DeWitt Hyde
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on… — William DeWitt Hyde
I hate optimism out of insensitivity. — Zuoxiao Zuzhou
If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment… — Stephen Fry
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. — Brian May
Find optimism in the inevitable — Rem Koolhaas
Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high — Paul Allen
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that… — Oscar Niemeyer
As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to… — Ariel Sharon
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief… — Ed Mayo
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the… — John Updike
Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. — Ernie Banks
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our… — Kurt Vonnegut
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Arthur C. Clarke
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or… — Brian Aldiss

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