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Category: Optimism and Hope

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

John Ralston Saul, "The Doubter's Companion"

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

Tommy Lasorda

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

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

George Savile

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

Navjot Singh Sidhu

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

Anon.

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6. "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

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

Navjot Singh Sidhu

8. "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

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

William Hazlitt

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

Don Marquis

11. "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"

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

Charles Revson

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

13. "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

Harry S. Truman

14. "Hope 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

15. "Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

George Bernard Shaw, "An Unsocial Socialist"

16. "While there is life, there is hope."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

17. "Great hopes make great man."

English proverb

Quotations about: Success and Fame

18. "Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Anger

19. "We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

20. "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."

Jesus Christ, Matthew 7:7

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21. "Optimists are badly informed pessimists."

Anon.

22. "A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."

Elbert Green Hubbard

23. "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Jonathan Swift

24. "I am prepared for the worst, but hope the best."

Benjamin Disraeli, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy"

25. "Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."

Golda Meir

26. "Pessimist's definition of an Optimist: Someone who knows today is so bad, tomorrow has just got to be better."

Anon.

27. "But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

George Eliot, "Middlemarch"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

28. "To know the history of philosophy is to know that the highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists."

Helen Keller

29. "Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

30. "Borrow money from pessimists - they won't expect it back."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money

31. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

Helen Keller

32. "Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist invents the parachute."

George Bernard Shaw

33. "He who has never hoped can never despair."

George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"

34. "For myself, I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

Winston Churchill

35. "The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy."

Helen Keller

36. "Pessimists are Optimists with experience."

Anon.

37. "Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Anon.

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