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Optimism Quotes


"Out of difficulties grow miracles."


"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."


"But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future."


"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."


"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."


"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."


"A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise."


"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."


"I see a New York that is once again the empire state."


"India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples."


"Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism."


"Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity."


"I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow."


"There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism."


"Don't let yesterday's storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine."


"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."


"I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism."


"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."


"There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism."


"The darker it gets, the brighter your dreams shine."


"The storm is the optimist's friend, but the pessimist's nightmare."


"Hope is a better friend than despair."
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