Optimism Quotes - page 9

With the destructive power of today's weapons, keeping the peace is not just a goal; it's a sacred obligation. But maintaining peace requires more than sincerity and idealism-more than optimism and good will. As you know well, peace is a product of hard, strenuous labor by those dedicated to its preservation. It requires realism, not wishful thinking. (Ronald Reagan)
Optimism can be relearnt. View quote
Marian Keyes
In fact, I'm happy to go on record as saying that the ability to create a reality distortion field is right up there alongside optimism as an entrepreneur's most valuable weapon. View quote
Marc Randolph
Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows. View quote
Martin Seligman
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism. View quote
Martin Seligman
Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health. View quote
Martin Seligman
Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are. View quote
Martin Seligman
When it comes to our health, there are essentially four things under our control: the decision not to smoke, a commitment to exercise, the quality of our diet, and our level of optimism. And optimism is at least as beneficial as the others. View quote
Martin Seligman
My real problem was certainly decisions I made, and the optimism that I had in making them. Y'know, I mean, I lived within this kind of nimbus of optimism, that, no matter what I encountered, I would always overcome it. Well, optimism can be your worst enemy as well as your best friend, but the other side of this is, that, y'know, expenses grow. But our incomes have not. View quote
Neal Gabler
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time. View quote
Norman Davies
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source. (Augusten Burroughs)
Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks. View quote
Olivia Wilde
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good. View quote
Oliver Burkeman
In recent years we have been served up a lot of claptrap about the need for a national identity. We have been urged to sing imbecile jingles, flex our muscles like the sportsmen from telly commercials, and display a heart optimism totally unconvincing because so superficial an unnatural. Those who preach this doctrine are usually the kind of chauvinist who is preparing his country, not to avert war, but to engage in it. View quote
Patrick White
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. View quote
Patricia Cornwell
The optimism of the Left was created and maintained by a strong feeling: admiration for the power of reason, certainty that the application of science to industry would revolu­tionise the order of human society and the condition of its individual members. The ancestral aspiration towards human brotherhood was united with faith in practical science in order to inspire either nationalism or socialism or both. View quote
Raymond Aron
Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health. View quote
Richard Bandler
From 1931 to 1935, I was an undergraduate at Cambridge in my father's old college, Gonville and Caius, which was particularly strong in medicine and the law. However, after two years of law I switched to economics, much to my father's disappointment. At that time the world was in the depth of the great depression and my motive for wanting to change subject was the belief, bred of youthful ignorance and optimism, that if only economics were better understood, the world would be a better place. View quote
Richard Stone
History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism. View quote
Stephane Hessel
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average. (Shawn Achor)
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. View quote
Bernard Beckett
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. View quote
David Richo
An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner. View quote
Alberto Villoldo