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“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.”
Richard M. DeVos
“The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.”
Peter Ustinov
“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.”
Paul J. Meyer
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”
Rene Descartes
“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Susan J. Bissonette
“Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
G. B. Stern
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
Antonio Gramsci
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
Nicholas Murray Butler
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