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
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Elbert Hubbard 
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
Stephen Ambrose 
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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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You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.
George Stephanopoulos
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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
Edward Steichen
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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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