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Optimism Quotes by Voltaire
- Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
- Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
- One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion
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
- 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
- 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
- Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far… — E. M. Delafield
- Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. — E. Joseph Cossman
- Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. — Francis Bacon
- One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism… — Lucille Ball