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 passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron
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Voltaire All Optimism Quotes
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
Howard Mumford Jones 
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There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.
Jill Clayburgh
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For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
Earle Brown
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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
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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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