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Category: Optimism and Hope

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1. "A laugh is a smile with a soundtrack."

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Quotations about: Joy and Sadness -:- Wit and Humor

2. "Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Vaclav Havel, "Disturbing the Peace"

3. "Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

4. "An optimist invented an airplane, a pessimist invented a parachute."

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5. "The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

George F. Will

6. "Optimism is the content of small men in high places."

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7. "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Allan K. Chalmers

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Love

8. "You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Youth and Age

9. "Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."

Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

10. "We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."

Epictetus, "Dissertations"

11. "Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment."

Evan Esar

12. "Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."

Robert G. Ingersoll

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

13. "Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Candide"

14. "The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

Frank Lloyd Wright, "The Living City"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

15. "A desert is a place without expectation."

Nadine Gordimer

Quotations about: Various

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

Antonio Gramsci, "Gramsci: Letters from Prison"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

17. "Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

James Baldwin, "A Dialogue"

18. "I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."

Henry Brooks Adams

Quotations about: Art and Culture

19. "Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."

Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"

20. "Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey."

Ouida (Marie Louise De La Ramée), "Wisdom, Wit and Pathos"

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21. "A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it."

Aldous Huxley, "Do What You Will"

22. "Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth."

Christina Georgina Rossetti

23. "It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!"

Gilda Radner

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

24. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

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Quotations about: Time and Passing

25. "I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent."

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Quotations about: God and Religion

26. "I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

Peter Ustinov

27. "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

Colin Powell

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

28. "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

Quotations about: Love

29. "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

Brian Tracy

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Success and Fame

30. "Hope is patience with the lamp lit."

Tertullian

31. "Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Work and Laziness

32. "A pessimist is someone who looks at the land of milk and honey and sees only calories and cholesterol."

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Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

33. "The best bridge between hope and despair is often a good night's sleep."

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34. "To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."

Pearl Buck, "To My Daughters, With Love"

35. "Optimism is the opium of the people."

Milan Kundera

36. "Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

37. "Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier."

Navjot Singh Sidhu

38. "A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are."

Chauncey Depew

Quotations about: Woman and Man

39. "Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery."

John Ralston Saul, "The Doubter's Companion"

40. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Tommy Lasorda

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Success and Fame

41. "Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."

George Savile

42. "Optimist is the one who looks at bullshit and sees fertilizer."

Navjot Singh Sidhu

43. "The glass is not half-empty, it's just twice as big as it needs to be."

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Quotations about: Various

44. "The pessimist complains about the direction of the wind, the optimist expects the direction to change, but the leader simply adjusts the sails!"

John C. Maxwell

45. "A pessimist is one who burns bridges before the enemy gets to them."

Navjot Singh Sidhu

46. "The meaning of life is to go back to sleep and hope that tomorrow will be a better day."

Charles Monroe Schulz

Quotations about: Life and Death

47. "Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope."

William Hazlitt

Quotations about: Life and Death

48. "A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

Don Marquis

49. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."

James Branch Cabell, "Silver Stallion"

50. "In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope."

Charles Revson

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

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