O Quotes
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“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.”
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
“Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.”
“Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.”
“Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.”
“Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans
dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage,
and marriage alone, we despair.”
“Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie , concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Optimism is an attitude that helps us approach our problems more constructively than pessimism. It allows us to see a silver lining in a bad situation, and it helps us work around obstacles rather than letting them stop us.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“Optimism is an effort.”
“Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation.”
“Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?”
“Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.”
Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
“Optimism is completely about hope. Whilst pessimism is about quitting before trial. A thirsty optimist would drink the glass hoping it would keep him alive. The thirsty pessimist would panic about the small amount of water he is left with… would nevertheless drink it… but the lack of hope would eventually kill him.”
Source: The Mangoman
“Optimism is cowardice.”
Source: Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
“Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.”
Source: Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
Source: Commencement Addresses
“Optimism is evidence-based.”
“Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.”
“Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We should use military strikes against ISIS when they threaten the Shia areas or Baghdad. We need to accelerate very rapidly, and we have ways to do it, aid to the Syrians, and we need to be more active, with results, not simply inputs. That is absolutely important right now, because people are questioning our will, not our capabilities.”
“Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated”
“Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.”
Source: State of the nation address 2007
“Optimism is informed hope. You've been given something, you've accepted it, and understood it, and then you have to pass it on”
“Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.”
Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Optimism is lack of information.”
“Optimism is letting your vast possibilities flow freely!”
“Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.”
“Optimism is like a firefly. A bright blaze of hope, unable to be captured.”
“Optimism is my best defense.”
“Optimism is necessary even if you don't instinctively feel it.”
“Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it.”
Source: God Wants You to Be Happy: Discovering Deeper Joy Than You Ever Imagined
“Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.”
“Optimism is not letting the present and the past decide your future.”
“Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation
“Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly.”
“Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.”
“Optimism is the act of dreaming and believing at the same time. There is hope in optimism, otherwise pessimism would minimize the chances of the triumphal entry of hope.”
“Optimism is the art of seeing the glass as refillable, not just half full or half empty.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Optimism is the best sales skill.”
Source: I communicate, Therefore, I sell: “Communication is the most stable currency because it never loses its value.”
“Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.”
“Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”
Source: The Crack-up
“Optimism is the cure for negative thoughts.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.”
“Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.”
“Optimism is the foundation of courage.”
“Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.”
“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
“Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?