Optimism Quotes

• Winning is not about headlines and hardware medals. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Today
  • Giving
  • Effort

• Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Good
  • Economy

• Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Heaven
  • Deep
  • Despair

• What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Work
  • May
  • Hope

• The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Boys

• 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 R.E.M.
  • Kill
  • Optimism
  • Nihilistic

• Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Different
  • Real
  • Hope

• Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.

  

  Albert Meltzer
  • Hope
  • Optimism
  • Defeated

• The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Security

• We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Heart
  • Happiness
  • Souls

• Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Christmas
  • Optimism

• At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

  

  William Hague
  • Government
  • Humans
  • East

• I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • People
  • Strong
  • Missing

• I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.

  

  Jordan Gavaris
  • World
  • Sure
  • Optimism

• I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Thinking
  • Dark
  • Optimism

• Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

  

  David Landes
  • Optimism
  • Consolation
  • Pessimism

• Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Evil
  • Suffering

• Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Real
  • Optimism
  • Accentuate

• Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

  

  William James
  • Weakness
  • Optimism
  • Pessimism

• There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Reality
  • Commitment
  • Tears

• The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Family
  • Philosophy

• Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Solutions

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