Top Optimism Quotes
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Abdul Kalam
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
Louise Brown
What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.
Rudy Giuliani
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ellis 
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas M. Butler
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There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Jim Leach
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Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
Leni Riefenstahl
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
William Ralph Inge
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
Vernor Vinge
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
Natan Sharansky
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I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.
John Hench
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Patricia Ireland
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Popular Optimism Authors
Oscar Wilde VoltaireAmbrose BierceGeorge SantayanaWilliam JamesElbert HubbardVirginia WoolfHelen KellerStephen AmbroseColin PowellHenry RollinsHenry EllisNorman CousinsPatricia IrelandMilan Kundera
John HenchBrian MayRobin WilliamsJohn DyerNatan SharanskyTodd SolondzTwyla TharpAbdul KalamStuds TerkelLouise BrownHavelock EllisVaclav HavelWilliam Ralph IngeJim RamstadFrancis Parker Yockey
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