Quotes and Sayings About Optimism
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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
-- A.S. King -
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
-- Abdul Kalam -
I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.
-- Abigail Reynolds -
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
-- Abraham Maslow -
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
-- Alain de Botton -
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
-- Alan Cohen -
History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated
-- Albert Meltzer -
An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.
-- Alex Steffen -
I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
-- Andre Gide -
In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.
-- Andy Andrews -
I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
-- Anna Sui -
... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
-- Anne Perry -
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.
-- Anne Rice -
Optimism is the parent of despair, while pessimism allows the mind to accustom itself to the inevitable disappointments of human existence by degrees, just as some drugs induce a state of tolerance. Pessimists, moreover, have the better sense of humour, for they have a livelier apprehension of pretension and absurdity. In a meritocracy, furthermore, those who fail must either indulge in elaborate mental contortions to disguise reality from themselves or sink into a deep melancholy.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
-- Arnold Bennett -
How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.
-- Arthur Lynch -
Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.
-- Arthur Lynch -
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realizations. ... Dreams go out and fulfill themselves; wishes need only to be articulated.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
-- Barbara Johnson -
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
-- Benjamin Graham
