Optimism Quotations
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| Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. | |||
| - Robert Brault | |||
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| Optimism is the foundation of courage. | |||
| - Nicholas Murray Butler | |||
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| The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. | |||
| - James Branch Cabell | |||
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| For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. | |||
| - Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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| A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. | |||
| - Chauncey M. Depew | |||
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| The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. | |||
| - Havelock Ellis | |||
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| A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. | |||
| - Elbert Hubbard | |||
| Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. | |||
| - Elbert Hubbard | |||
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| Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. | |||
| - Kin Hubbard | |||
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| Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. | |||
| - Douglas Jerrold | |||
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| An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. | |||
| - Irv Kupcinet | |||
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| A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. | |||
| - Leonard L. Levinson | |||
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| How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? | |||
| - Robert Mallett | |||
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| An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. | |||
| - Helen Rowland | |||
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| Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. | |||
| - Gil Stern | |||
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| A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. | |||
| - Harry S Truman | |||
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| There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. | |||
| - Peter Ustinov | |||
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| An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. | |||
| - Bill Vaughan | |||
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| Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||
| The basis of optimism is sheer terror. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||
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| The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. | |||
| - George Will | |||