Optimism Quotes - Page 13

Finish every day and be done with it.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

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.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

There is a good side to every situation.

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

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

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.