Lucille Ball - Quotes

 One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. 

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Renee Zellweger - Quotes

 What I admire most about Bridget is her ever-present optimism in the face of adversity. I love how she has romantic troubles, but she gets back up and even laughs at herself. Me? I do my best. I keep on trying, anyway. 

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Dr. Seuss - Quotes

 Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. 

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Sheng Wang - Quotes

 It's not about hair loss. It's about face GAIN. I hear the term, 'receding hairline'. I say, 'Expanding Facial Fronteir'. One day I might have a whole head of FACE. 

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Winston S. Churchill - Quotes

 A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. 

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Rick Steves - Quotes

 Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking. 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 The basis of optimism is sheer terror. 

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Colin Powell - Quotes

 Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier. 

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Henry Rollins - Quotes

 My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. 

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Anne Frank - Quotes

 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. 

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James Redfield - Quotes

 We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen. 

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Charles Dickens - Quotes

 Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. 

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Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

 Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. 

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George Bernard Shaw - Quotes

 a pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. 

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Howard Zinn - Quotes

 TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places 

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Randy Pausch - Quotes

 Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do. 

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Nelson Mandela - Quotes

 I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. 

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Helen Keller - Quotes

 Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. 

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Noam Chomsky - Quotes

 Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. 

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James Branch Cabell - Quotes

 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. 

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Adelaide Hasse - Quotes

 I find nothing more depressing than optimism. 

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Winston S. Churchill - Quotes

 For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. 

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Terry Eagleton - Quotes

 Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness. 

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Orson F. Whitney - Quotes

 The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience. 

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Dylan Thomas - Quotes

 I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. 

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C.S. Lewis - Quotes

 My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.



Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue. 

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Arthur C. Clarke - Quotes

 I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. 

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John Wyndham - Quotes

 It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that  

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 Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all, to see life as it is, and not as it should be! 

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Mark Twain - Quotes

 The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little. 

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A.A. Milne - Quotes

 It's snowing still,' said Eeyore gloomily.

So it is 

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James Redfield - Quotes

 We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative. 

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May Sarton - Quotes

 In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on. 

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Louis D Brandeis - Quotes

 Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. 

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