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„My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.“
„Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.“
„Optimism is the belief that things will get better. Hope is the faith that, together, we can make things better.“
„Optimism is a passive virtue, hope is an active one.“
„The soul refuses limits, and always affirms an Optimism, never a Pessimism.“
„Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.“
„I do hereby and forever abandon abandoning all hope. Honestly, I give up on giving up. I’m just not cut out to be some hopeless, disillusioned wretch with no aspirations for the rest of the eternity, sprawled catatonic in my own feces on a cold stone floor. In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can’t scrape together even a couple of days of hopelessness. Future scientists would call it Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I’d say that mine has been a way-long case of history chasing rainbows.“
„With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.“
„The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.“
„Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.“
„It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.“
„Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they would be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, — if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.“
„Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.“
„Optimism is the harmony between man’s spirit and the spirit of God pronouncing His works good.“
„I find the audiences very excited. But then they come and say to me, “Your optimism has brushed off on me. I didn’t know we had an option. I feel so much better.” They say, “Your optimism.” And I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer.“
„I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I’m not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.“
„And that is not the America I know. The America I know is full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity. The America I know is decent and generous.“
„People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization… that’s what you should do.“
„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.“
„To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.“
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