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The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. (Quote by - Studs Terkel)

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treament. (Quote by - Kent Beck)

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. (Quote by - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. (Quote by - Agnes Repplie)

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift. (Quote by - Karl A. Menninger)

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today (Quote by - Francis Maude)

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. (Quote by - Charles Eliot)

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. (Quote by - William Faulkner)

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

An optimist is the human personification of spring. (Quote by - Susan J. Bissonette)

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. (Quote by - Nicholas M. Butler)

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. (Quote by - Colleen Wilcox)

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. (Quote by - Stephen Ambrose)

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. (Quote by - Patricia Ireland)

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)

Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. (Quote by - Anne Frank)

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