Optimism Quotes - Page 6

If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.

Optimism is my best defense.

No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health.

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to include the belief that new things can be discovered, that newer can be better, and that greater depth of understanding is achievable. Research, especially academic research, is a form of optimism about the human condition.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

Optimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

When it comes to our health, there are essentially four things under our control: the decision not to smoke, a commitment to exercise, the quality of our diet, and our level of optimism. And optimism is at least as beneficial as the others.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.