• If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.6 · 14 votes · 17 reads

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• If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 11 votes · 46 reads

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• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.

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  Carl Sandburg

  PoetAmerican1878 · 19th century

  4.7 · 63 votes · 150 reads

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• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 179 reads

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• My sun sets to rise again.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  4.4 · 49 votes · 29 reads

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• Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 187 reads

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• One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.7 · 10 votes · 7 reads

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• Optimism is the opium of the people.

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 8 reads

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• Optimism: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.6 · 11 votes · 56 reads

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• Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 28 votes · 128 reads

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• Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.0 · 19 votes · 172 reads

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• Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  5.0 · 63 votes · 1 reads

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• Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 30 votes · 107 reads

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• Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 7 votes · 118 reads

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• The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 124 reads

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• The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.

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  Julius Robert Oppenheimer

  PhysicistAmerican1904 · 20th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 31 reads

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• The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.4 · 29 votes · 15 reads

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• The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

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  Peter F. Drucker

  WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.0 · 36 votes · 188 reads

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• There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 47 votes · 93 reads

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• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 27 reads

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• These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 154 reads

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• To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.5 · 48 votes · 56 reads

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• Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 55 reads

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• What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.2 · 43 votes · 114 reads

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• When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.9 · 33 votes · 133 reads

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