Optimism Quotes - Page 3

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living.

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

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

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.