Optimism Quotes - Page 9

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

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.

The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.

If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it's what lets you pull on the line and reach what you're aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I approach every problem with optimism.

Optimism is a cure for many things.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.