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Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.
Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists
Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly.
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.
Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.
The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.
Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?