Beautiful Quote by Graham Collier

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

— Eleanor Porter

“Character is contagious.”

— Wayde Goodall

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that…

— Ramez Naam

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

— Bill Ayers

Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would…

— Jonathan Alter

“If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad Kurt Vonnegut…

— Ray Bradbury

Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so…

— Dale Carnegie

Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been…

— Joe Tye

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes…

— Tracy Pollan

Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with…

— Weegee

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps…

— Ray Bradbury

In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts…

— Chuck Palahniuk