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Elbert Hubbard
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure.
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Virginia
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron
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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
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Lloyd Alexander
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
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Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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Lucille Ball
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One 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.
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James Harvey Robinson
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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 man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
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[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.
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"I've already warned Gryph about such optimism in my presence..." - MR
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"Come on. Let's keep a little optimism here." - Han Solo
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