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Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
-Christian D. Larsen
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When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
-Sir John A. Macdonald
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
-Reginald B. Mansell
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
-Don Marquis
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The happy ending is our national belief.
-Mary McCarthy
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The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
-Peter McWilliams
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
-George Jean Nathan
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
-Anne Perry
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To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
-Don Piatt
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I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
-Alice Potter
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
-Colin Powell
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It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!
-Gilda Radner
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
-Carl Sandburg
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
-Jonathan Swift
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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
-Mark Twain
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
-Mark Twain
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Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.
-Source Unknown
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
-Source Unknown
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Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.
-Source Unknown
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Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.
-Source Unknown
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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
-Peter Ustinov
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As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
-Stephen Vizinczey
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Books about Optimism
