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
My optimism for life carried through my work.
John Dyer
Raymond Aron 
Colin Powell 
Vernor Vinge 
Vaclav Havel 
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 
Todd Solondz 
Studs Terkel 
Brian May All Optimism Quotes
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
Herbert Croly 
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Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.
Jim Ramstad
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Virginia Woolf
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Twyla Tharp
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I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Roberto Rossellini
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I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
Joan Blades
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
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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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