Albert Einstein
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
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Dorothy Broude
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
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Jonathan Swift
“May you live all the days of your life.”
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Bernhard Berenson
“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.”
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”
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Thom Rainer
“Faith and optimism are contagious.”
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William James
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power”
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Colleen Wilcox
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
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Antonio Gramsci
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
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Louisa May Alcott
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
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Larry Elder
“Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.”
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Arthur Lynch
“Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
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Oscar Wilde
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
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Jimmy Dean
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
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Maria Robinson
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
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Alex Tan
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
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Bo Bennett
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it.
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Winston Churchill
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!” ________________________________________
Author Unknown
“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be”
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Helen Keller
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
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Winston Churchill
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else”
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Kahlil Gibran
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose”
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Winston Churchill
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
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Daniel L. Reardon
“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”
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Nicholas Butler
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
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Robert Fulghum
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
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Helen Keller
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
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Lucy Macdonald
“It's not that optimism solves all of life's problems; it is just that it can sometimes make the difference between coping and collapsing.”
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Christopher Peterson
“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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Price Pritchett
“Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.”
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Horace Fletcher
“Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.”
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Michel De Saint-Pierre
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”
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Arthur Lynch
“Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.”
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Robert Sherfield
“Optimists don't internalize pain or criticism. They take it for what it is worth and carry on.”
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Thomas Hood
“I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“ I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
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Muhammed Ali
“ If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
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Andrew Carnegie
“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
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Charles Dickens
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
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Walter Winchell
“Optimist: A man who is chased up a tree by a lion but enjoys the scenery anyway.”
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Walt Disney
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
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Robert Sherfield
“Optimists find joy in small things. They enjoy sunsets, a good conversation with a close friend; and they enjoy life in general. They are more concerned with having many small joys rather than having one huge joy.”
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Daniel Goleman
“The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.”
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Helen Keller
“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.”
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Brian Tracy
“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.”
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Helen Keller
“My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.”
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John Heywood
“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
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Author Unknown
“May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.”
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Paul J. Meyer
“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.”
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Helen Keller
“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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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.”
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Wayne Dyer
“What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.”
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William Hyde
“Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.”
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Rosabeth Kanter
“The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?”
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William Hyde
“The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.”
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