Quotes About Optimism

But there is one aphorism that actually encourages people to quit: Quit while you're ahead. Just as so many of those inspirational quotes lauding unlimited persistence are bad advice, this single piece of pro-quitting wisdom, despite surviving for more than four hundred years, is no better.

The real advice we should give people is more complicated than you can fit in a four-word slogan: Quit while you're ahead . . . when the game you are playing or the path you are on is a losing proposition. If you are in a situation that carries with it a negative expected value, by all means quit. But keep going when you have a positive expected value.

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Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

MickeyMize your life, because it is better than to MinneyMize, or MaxiMize, or OptiMize, or PessiMize, or PhantoMize. MickeyMize is the way to go!

An optimist is a person who takes action, who moves out ahead of the crowd.

An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

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

You're never a loser til you quit trying.

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

I always take life with a grain of salt. . . plus a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila.

I believe that we will win!

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Progress really is possible.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

I always think that age is a natural progression, and I'm ready for it. Whatever. I'm going to be the best 85-year-old that I can be if I'm still around.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

I sometimes think, as bad as things seem for progressives in this world in the Trump era, it's worse than we think it is.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.