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
Roberto Rossellini 
Vernor Vinge 
Voltaire 
Herbert Croly 
Linda Lingle 
Colin Powell 
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball 
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There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
Harry Stack Sullivan
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If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Francis Parker Yockey
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But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
Linda Lingle
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana
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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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