Optimism Quotes

• 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.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Winning

• So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophy
  • Optimism

• Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Happiness
  • Believes
  • Suffers

• 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.

  

  Alan AtKisson
  • World
  • Change
  • Optimism

• Find optimism in the inevitable.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Find
  • Optimism
  • Inevitable

• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  

  Nicholas Murray Butler
  • Courage
  • Achievement
  • Optimism

• I have gained and sustained my optimism as a humble student of our living universe, our living Earth, which clearly shows us the way out of our adolescent crisis into a mature global future. The sooner we create our vision of all we desire, set our intention to implement it together, and put our individual capacities into collective action, the greater our chances of success.

  

  Elisabet Sahtouris
  • Future
  • Success
  • Desire

• I hate optimism out of insensitivity.

  

  Zuoxiao Zuzhou
  • Optimism
  • Insensitivity

• 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.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Faith
  • Child
  • Difficult

• Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Focus
  • Ability
  • Optimism

• He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Enough
  • Made
  • Minutes

• Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • World
  • Certain
  • Circumstances

• It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Business
  • Evil
  • Mistake

• Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Optimism
  • Develops

• Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Reason
  • Christian
  • Matter

• Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Training
  • Baseball
  • Flowers

• There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

  

  Harry Stack Sullivan
  • Fun
  • Price
  • Psychiatry

• I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Paint
  • Optimism
  • I Believe In

• Optimism is the key.

  

  Will Champion Coldplay
  • Key
  • Optimism

• One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Powerful
  • Attitude
  • Negative

• To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • Garden
  • Judgment
  • Optimism

• The prevailing mood in my country is one of optimism and opportunity. Scotland is restless for change and keen to expand its influence and to reach out beyond our shores.

  

  Alex Salmond
  • Opportunity
  • Optimism
  • Scotland

• Optimism is true moral courage.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Courage
  • Optimism

• I think preppy stands for optimism, confidence, energy and authenticity.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Energy
  • Authenticity
  • Preppy

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