Optimism

(26 votes)   ... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

Anne Perry

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(233 votes)   Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(170 votes)   Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.

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(146 votes)   When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(138 votes)   An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

George Jean Nathan
1882-1958, American Critic

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(128 votes)   Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

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(124 votes)   One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet

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(118 votes)   An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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(104 votes)   Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

P. J. O'Rourke
1947-, American Journalist

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(99 votes)   There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(94 votes)   Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

Christian D. Larsen

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(82 votes)   I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist

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(81 votes)   Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Emile Durkheim
1858-1917, French Sociologist

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(79 votes)   Vote with your life; vote yes!

Das Energi

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(78 votes)   When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Sir John A. Macdonald
1815-1891, Canadian First Prime Minister

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