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I
am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from
nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic
is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet
moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith
in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and
could not give myself up to despair.
-Nelson
Mandela
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The
essence of optimism is that it takes no account
of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,
of vitality and hope where others have resigned;
it enables a person to hold his or her head high, to claim the
future for him or herself and not to abandon it to the enemy.
-Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
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have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make
it
through one door, I'll go through another door--or I'll
make a door. Something terrific will come
no matter how dark the present.
-Rabindranath
Tagore |
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Optimism is
the one quality more associated
with success and happiness than any other.
-Brian Tracy
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| Optimism
is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things
and good people will be drawn to you.
-Mary Lou
Retton |
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| Optimism
means expecting
the best, but confidence
means knowing how
to handle the worst. Never make a move if
you are merely optimistic.
-Zurich
Axiom |
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| The
optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
-Khalil
Gibran |
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am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only
the best
for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my
world.
I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.
I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
-Alice
Potter |
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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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| Optimism is essential to achievement and it is
also
the foundation of courage and true progress.
-Lloyd Alexander |
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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 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 won.
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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if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin
Luther King, Jr. |
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| In this world, the optimists have it, not
because they are always right,
but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they
are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction,
improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
-David Landes |
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pessimist is one who makes difficulties of opportunities
and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of difficulties.
-Harry S.
Truman |
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have been wonderful
to me in the good times
and the
bad,
and I've come to believe
that you do indeed reap
what you sow. For those who
constantly
gripe about life,
I turn
and walk away. For those
who speak
negatively about
people
behind their backs,
I move on. -Bob
Losure |
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| There
is an optimism which nobly anticipates the
eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is
an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
-Agnes
Repplier |
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| I am an
optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
-Winston
Churchill |
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| An optimist is the human
personification of
spring. -Susan J. Bissonette |
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