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Tag Name "Optimists" (48)

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Optimists are happier in life for a reason.
Brendon Burchard
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Optimists are usually inexperienced.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
William Arthur Ward
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Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.
Paul Tough
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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
Thomas Friedman
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To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.
Walter Cronkite
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Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
Denis Waitley
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Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors.
Wes Fesler
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Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
Emile M. Cioran
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The pessimist borrows trouble the optimists lend encouragement.
William Arthur Ward
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen Keller
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. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism optimists will never change the world for the better.
Jose Saramago
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Let optimists rule the world.
Lauryn Hill
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There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.
Mark Matousek
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Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Mason Cooley
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Communists are the last optimists.
Nadine Gordimer
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Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Alice Thomas Ellis
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We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.
Richard Rohr
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Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.
Barbara Holland
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Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
Rudy Giuliani
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The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
Benjamin Graham
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Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.
Sydney J. Harris
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