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• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Achievement, Confidence

  Tags in Optimism, Hope, Faith

• It’s hard to argue against cynics — they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

  Molly Ivins

  Tags in Optimism, Cynicism

• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  Oscar Wilde

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Perception

• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

  Jonas Edward Salk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Dreams

• Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

  Alan Cohen

  Topics in Fear, Opportunity, Wisdom

  Tags in Change/Growth, Optimism, Pessimism, Hope

• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

  Michel de Saint-Pierre

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism

• When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Encouragement, Inspirational

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Regret

• Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on — whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made… But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe — and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

  Linus Pauling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery, Optimism, Pessimism, Curiosity, School, Enthusiasm

• Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Optimism, Pessimism

• Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Commitment, Failure, Opportunity, Success

  Tags in Optimism, Persistence, Patience

• Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it’s too often the art of the probable — tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Politics, Vision

  Tags in Optimism, Imagination

• I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Will, Science

• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Optimism, Multiplier, Perpetual, Force

• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Topics in Achievement, Progress

  Tags in Optimism, Courage

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Challenge, Life, Opportunity

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Difficulties