Optimistic Quotes

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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved,… — Bernard Beckett
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up… — Noam Chomsky
Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed… — Terry Eagleton
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw
Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you… — Cassandra Clare
In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes,… — May Sarton
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst. — Stephen King
Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen,… — Gennifer Choldenko
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and… — Charles Dickens
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. — Randy Pausch
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise — Oscar Wilde
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. — Norton Juster
We need men who can dream of things that never were. — John F. Kennedy
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. — Ayn Rand
I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't… — Peter Cameron
As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be? — Cassandra Clare
By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead. — Warren Ellis
I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. — Neal Shusterman
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. — William Arthur Ward
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light… — Helen Keller

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