Optimists Quotes

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...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny,… — B. C. Forbes
There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. — Robert Breault
But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her… — Eva Longoria
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty… — Bernard Williams
In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are… — David Landes
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward
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
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
I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air — Gunnar Staalesen
Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors. — Wes Fesler
I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists… — Tamar Myers
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and… — Martin Seligman
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better.… — Thomas Ligotti
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;… — Strobe Talbott
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy — Louise Imogen Guiney
Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists — Mark Twain
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, theyâ€™re more likely… — Paul Tough
Optimists are usually inexperienced. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

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