Common Quote by E. M. Delafield

What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else…

— Tony Judt

Optimism is a habit perpetuated by success.

— Tasneem Hameed

Find optimism in the inevitable

— Rem Koolhaas

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Optimism is a cure for many things.

— Michael J. Fox

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man…

— James Russell Lowell

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get…

— Alex Steffen

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

— Bill Vaughan

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Jeannette Walls

“Cultural pessimism is always fashionable, and since we are human, there are always grounds for it. It has the negative consequence of depressing the…

— Marilynne Robinson

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of…

— Price Pritchett