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Quotes About Optimism

In our springtime there is no better, there is no worse.Blossoming branches burgeon as they must.Some are long, some are short.Stay upright.Stay with life.
~ Cyril Pedrosa
Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...
~ Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories
If you are happy with your present time, you will look at your past with happy eyes even if you have had a sad past!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Only strong people can find happiness from the sadness surrounding them.
~ Sahaj Oberoi
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.
~ Ouida
Was I deceiv'd or did a sable cloudTurn forth her silver lining on the night?
~ John Milton
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
~ John Milton
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
~ John Milton
Because whatever we focus on in life grows. Focus on the bad and it is multiplied, it's everywhere (watch the news tonight if you don't believe me. Reporters are experts at this). Focus on the good and it expands, it's all around.
~ John O'Leary
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
~ John Osborne
You cannot think negative thoughts and expect to live a positive life.
~ John Osteen
Never underestimate the power of clever people to help others see the possibilities, to help them generate a feeling of faith, and to change behavior.
~ John P. Kotter
When your dreams are big enough the odds just don't matter.
~ John Passaro
When you decide that you are going to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, sometime during your seemingly infinite journey the weathervane will just change direction and the new winds of positive change will blow at your back instead of into your face and things will just get easier and you will start to see progress right out of the blue. When that day happens you will know that it is just a matter of time. And time is what I have.
~ John Passaro
What the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve, through a positive mental Attitude. --Napoleon Hill
~ John Paul Carinci
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.
~ John Perry
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
~ John Perry Barlow
One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.
~ John Perry Barlow
I may be going to hell in a bucket Babe, at least I'm enjoying the ride.
~ John Perry Barlow
I still want to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a happy ending for every story. It all depends on how thoroughly you look for it and how badly you need it.
~ John Pielmeier
An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.
~ John Piper
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~ John Quinton
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.
~ John Quinton
Of course, it's easy to be overly optimistic when it comes to Egyptian reform. The country has a history of false promises and backtracking dating to the 1970s.
~ John R. Bradley