Optimism Quotes
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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
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There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.
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Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.
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Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.
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May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."
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Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.
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Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
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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.
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Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
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Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
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If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
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Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.
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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
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Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
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This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.
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The one thing worse than accepting environmental damage is a lack of optimism for the future.
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.
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My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
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Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.
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I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.
