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Quotes About Optimism

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
~ Sharon Olds
Not a realistic wish, as anyone could have told him — but I would not be the one to say so. Why limit your dreams, after all? Why not hope for the grandest and the best?
~ Sharon Shinn
We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.
~ Sharon Shinn
Workplace optimism is simply a place to start to make a difference for your people and for the business. It's a leadership opportunity that can turn work into a contribution to people's lives. Additionally, it can positively shape how people view and experience working on your team or in your company.
~ Shawn Murphy
The future is built with the bricks of optimism.
~ Shehu Sani
Life has become better, comrades; life has become more cheerful."       Stalin, 19353
~ Sheila Fitzpatrick
It's hard, since Noah, not to see a rainbow as a sign of hope.
~ Sheldon Vanauken
If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.
~ Sheldon Vanauken
If you suffer misfortune … do you damnedest to ignore it. Wallowing in what-might-have-beens and what-could have-happeneds will only keep your emotional wounds festering.
~ Shelly Branch
Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.
~ Nick Cave
The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
~ Pablo Picasso
Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.
~ Penn Jillette
I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas.
~ Phil Ehart
I am very practical, but at the same time, I am a dreamer and romantic.
~ Regina Taylor
Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.
~ Fernando J. Corbato
I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.
~ Frank Stallone
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
~ Franklin P. Adams
No use complaining, don't you worry, don't you wine. Cause if you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time.
~ Gerry Rafferty
It is time for us to say no, we are not going to backwards, we're going forward into a brighter future.
~ Hillary Clinton
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
~ Isabel Allende
Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.
~ James Lee Burke
Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.
~ Jane McGonigal