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Alexander Graham Bell: “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
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Frances Moore LappĂ©: “I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
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Benjamin Franklin: “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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Irv Kupcinet: “An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Michel De Saint-Pierre: “An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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Alan Cohen: “Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
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Julian of Norwich: “All will be well, all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.
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Molly Ivins: “It's hard to argue against cynics -- they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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Abraham Lincoln: “Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie: “The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
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Helen Keller: “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Oscar Wilde: “Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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Winston Churchill: “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Jonas Salk: “I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
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Mark Twain: “Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
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Napoleon Hill: “A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
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Howard Mumford Jones: “Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
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LInus Pauling: “Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences - and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on -- whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made... But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe -- and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
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William Arthur Ward: “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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Barack Obama: “Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
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John Kerry: “Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable -- tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.
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Winston Churchill: “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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Barack Obama: “We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
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Vince Lombardi: “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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Arundhati Roy: “Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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Vaclav Havel: “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Antonio Gramsci: “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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Vita Sackville-West: “The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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