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Category: Optimism and Hope

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1. "Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big."

George Carlin

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

2. "Sometimes it keeps us alive hope, sometimes habit, and sometimes fear. In the first case this is life, in the other vegetation, in the third hell."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Life and Death

3. "Hope is our life anesthesia."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Life and Death

4. "Clear sky is bigger than the largest rain clouds."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

5. "Despair is the shortest road to disaster."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Pain and Tears

6. "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Various

7. "Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desparate."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

8. "Optimist (n) - A person who spends the last dollar to buy a new wallet."

Ambrose Bierce

9. "Pessimist: One who complains about the noise when opporuntiy knocks."

Anon.

10. "An optimist can always see the bright side of the other guy's problems."

Anon.

Quotations about: Egoism

11. "Even optimists have a 100% mortality rate."

Anon.

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

Anon.

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

13. "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"

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

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

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

Anon.

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

George F. Will

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

Anon.

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

Allan K. Chalmers

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Love

19. "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

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

Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

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

Epictetus, "Dissertations"

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

Evan Esar

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Candide"

25. "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

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

Nadine Gordimer

Quotations about: Various

27. "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."

Antonio Gramsci, "Gramsci: Letters from Prison"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

28. "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"

29. "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

30. "Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."

Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"

31. "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"

32. "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"

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

Christina Georgina Rossetti

34. "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

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Time and Passing

36. "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."

Anon.

Quotations about: God and Religion

37. "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

38. "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

Colin Powell

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

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

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

Quotations about: Love

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

Brian Tracy

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Success and Fame

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

Tertullian

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

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

Anon.

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

Pearl Buck, "To My Daughters, With Love"

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

Milan Kundera

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

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

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

Navjot Singh Sidhu

49. "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

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

John Ralston Saul, "The Doubter's Companion"

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