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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

Do not think of to-day’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

I am fundamentally an optimist.

Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

I’m an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

I’m too cynical to be an optimist.

The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

I’m an optimist in my heart – I’m a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother – but a pessimist in my head. I think that’s the dialectic we all need to be in.

Pessimists, we’re told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can’t be any optimists in heaven.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

I am not a pessimist.Just a well informed optimist.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.