Quotes with optimism

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  • Oscar Wilde The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Havelock Ellis The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Stephen Hawking There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Virginia Woolf These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bell Hooks These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ben Bernanke Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Hermann Hesse What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Bob Iger What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Ullman When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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W. Bruce Cameron When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Helen Keller Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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