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Image of Maya Soetoro-Ng
Faith and optimism come from love.
- Maya Soetoro-Ng
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Image of John F. Kennedy
Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Tony Kushner
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
- Tony Kushner
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Image of Michael Lewis
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.
- Michael Lewis
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Image of Meera Lester
Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.
- Meera Lester
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Image of Rem Koolhaas
Find optimism in the inevitable.
- Rem Koolhaas
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Image of Don Marquis
An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
- Don Marquis
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Image of Francis Maude
David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today
- Francis Maude
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Image of Colum McCann
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
- Colum McCann
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Image of Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Simon Sinek
Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.
- Simon Sinek
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Image of Rachel Caine
but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.
- Rachel Caine
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Image of Salman Rushdie
optimism is a disease
- Salman Rushdie
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Image of Joseph Stiglitz
I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand the depths of the problem afterwards, I found a little bit surprising.
- Joseph Stiglitz
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Image of Bill Vaughan
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
- Bill Vaughan
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Mark Twain
Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists
- Mark Twain
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Image of Chuck Palahniuk
Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
- Chuck Palahniuk
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Image of Vanna Bonta
Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.
- Vanna Bonta
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Image of Elon Musk
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
- Elon Musk
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Pierre Trudeau
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
- Pierre Trudeau
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Image of Joseph Addison
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
- Joseph Addison
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Image of Simon Sinek
Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
- Simon Sinek
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Image of Chogyam Trungpa
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.
- Chogyam Trungpa
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Image of Lewis Mumford
I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.
- Lewis Mumford
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Image of Michael Stipe
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
- Michael Stipe
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Image of Ronald Reagan
We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
- Ronald Reagan
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Image of Zig Ziglar
No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.
- Zig Ziglar
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Image of Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Image of Hector Hugh Munro
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
- Hector Hugh Munro
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Image of Tim Winton
Optimism is necessary even if you don't instinctively feel it.
- Tim Winton
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Image of Robert Louis Stevenson
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Image of Cornel West
Optimism is evidence-based.
- Cornel West
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Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Image of William Arthur Ward
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
- William Arthur Ward
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Image of Elizabeth Taylor
I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.
- Elizabeth Taylor
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Image of George Santayana
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.
- George Santayana
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Image of Edward Teller
I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.
- Edward Teller
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Image of Ayelet Waldman
I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.
- Ayelet Waldman
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Image of Robert Anton Wilson
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
- Robert Anton Wilson
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Image of Assata Shakur
What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.
- Assata Shakur
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Image of Noam Chomsky
There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."
- Noam Chomsky
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Image of Matthieu Ricard
Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!
- Matthieu Ricard
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Image of Wes Fesler
The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.
- Wes Fesler
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Image of Warren Buffett
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
- Warren Buffett
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Image of H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What you must do, do cheerfully.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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