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Optimism is an expectation of the future, but hope is a way of experiencing the present. Optimism argues with the predictions of cynicism and bitterness, and is often proved wrong. Hope rejects cynicism and bitterness as unhelpful, and is perennially proved right.
Doug Muder
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Patricia Ireland
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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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.
Alexander Graham Bell
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I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet
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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
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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
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All will be well, all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.
Julian of Norwich
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It's hard to argue against cynics -- they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
Molly Ivins
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Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln
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The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Oscar Wilde
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
Jonas Salk
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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Mark Twain
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A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
Napoleon Hill
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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
Howard Mumford Jones
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