Insisting Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insisting Madness Miserable Optimism
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Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
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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 Copy Share Image
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives,… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill… — Warren Giles Copy Share Image
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole human beings… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat. — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
