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Quotes About Optimism

In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.
~ Anthony Liccione
Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.
~ Tommy Douglas
Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?
~ Robert Noyce
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Optimism is the true moral courage
~ Ernest Shackleton
People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.
~ Benjamin B. Ferencz
Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.
~ Nitin Nohria
It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!
~ Robin Roberts
Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.
~ Pope Francis
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
~ Linda Ellerbee
Don't be a Pollyanna!
~ Richard Diebenkorn
Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.
~ George Matthew Adams
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
~ Samuel Johnson
Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage.
~ Wilferd Peterson
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
~ Merle Shain
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
~ Robert Blair
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
~ George Horace Lorimer
Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
~ Victoria, Queen of England
My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.
~ Shiv Nadar
My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.
~ Apolo Ohno
My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.
~ Emo Philips
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
~ Sofia Coppola
My dad is a natural-born encourager. The last person who will ever tell you to lower your sights or give up your dream.
~ Tiffany Trump