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Quotes About Optimism

Mamafih ne?e insan?n içinde bulunduktan sonra, hayat onu ne kadar meydana ç?kmaktan men etse, ne kadar bo?maya çal??sa yine ilk f?rsatta adamak?ll? ne?eli olmaya çok müstaidsin.
~ Sabahattin Ali
She would put her "naïve American optimism" toward making herself indispensable to him, and she'd win him. Because naïve American optimism beat out English cynicism any day.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
You may be carrying around a sackful of stinking garbage. Either you can smear yourself with it and get terribly miserable, or you can make good manure out of it and create a wonderful garden.
~ Sadhguru
rewilding is all about being nice, kind, compassionate, empathic, and harnessing our inborn goodness and optimism. We must all work together at this. It's about time we focus on the good side of human and animal nature. ... nature offers many lessons for kinder society. Blood shouldn't sell.
~ Marc Bekoff
She who laughs, lasts. kate clinton
~ Marcia Tucker
Not to assume it's impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it's humanly possible, you can do it too.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Self reliance, always. And cheerfulness.
~ Marcus Aurelius
always to hope the best; and to be confident that my friends love me.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future
~ Marcus Aurelius
Soy afortunado porque, a pesar de haberme ocurrido eso, permanezco sin pena y no me rompo por el presente ni temo el porvenir.« Porque
~ Marcus Aurelius
He does only what is his to do, and considers constantly what the world has in store for him—doing his best, and trusting that all is for the best. For we carry our fate with us—and it carries us.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Why all the guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road follow it. Cheerfully, without turning back.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To keep track of your effectiveness at this, every three months you may want to take a moment to write down your answer to this question: what percentage of your day do you experience a feeling of self-efficacy, that optimistic, positive, challenged-yet-confident, authentic feeling? Phrased more simply, what percentage of your day do you spend doing those things you really like to do?
~ Marcus Buckingham
Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. (No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
No matter how many obstacles may block your path, or how dark the way, if you look up, think up, and struggle up, you can't help succeeding. Whatever you do for a living, whatever fortune or misfortune, hold the victorious attitude and push ahead.
~ Marden Orison Swett
What is your favorite word?" "And. It is so hopeful.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's better that way, and I am a great proponent of better. In the absence of best.
~ Margaret Atwood
I intend to get out of here. It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.
~ Margaret Atwood
Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are.
~ Margaret Atwood
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?
~ Margaret Atwood
As you ramble on through life, Brother, Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not upon the hole.
~ Margaret Atwood
We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are only looking at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.
~ Margaret Atwood
More often than not, she acted as if she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself--herself in the past. She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.
~ Margaret Atwood