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Optimism Quotes by Ellen Willis
- My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
- My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn…
More Optimism Quotes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
- I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard
- Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see… — Louisa May Alcott
- The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze. — Ramakrishna
- And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and… — Ronald Reagan
- No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism. — Robert Muller
- Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists — Mark Twain