Optimism

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Quotes about optimism.

• "An optimist is the human personification of spring."
  • Susan J. Bissonette

• "People ask me, 'Are you an Optimist?' I say 'I hope so!'"
  • Bill Bailey on his Part Troll stand-up tour

• "Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers."
  • Julian Simon

• "Optimism is cowardice."
  • Oswald Spengler

• "Despite the cautions just raised, there is abundant reason to believe that optimism – big, little, and in between – is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling."
  • Christopher Peterson, American Psychologist, January 2000:51

• "For myself I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
  • Sir Winston Churchill, speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954

• "I find nothing more depressing than optimism."
  • Paul Fussell

• "The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
  • Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

• "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
  • James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

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

• "The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
  • Peter Ustinov

• "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."
  • Helen Keller

• " 'Optimist' is a word which here refers to a person...who thinks pleasant thoughts about nearly everything. For instance, if an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, 'Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me if I am right-handed or left-handed,' but most of us would say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!' "
  • Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

• Optimist - "Opti" meaning "eye", and "mist" meaning fogged up, you understand.
  • anonymous

• "Two men look out through the same bars:
  One sees the mud, and one the stars."
  • Frederick Langbridge, 'A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts'

• "Optimism is an intellectual choice."
  • Diana Schneider

• "Kiss My Chaddhi - The Worst is yet to come."
  • Santosh Maharshi

• "Where's your joy in life? Where's your optimism?"

"It opted out."

"Optimism: Belief that everything will work out well. Irrational, bordering on insane."

• • The Fourth Doctor, Romana I and K9, in the Doctor Who serial The Armageddon Factor

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