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Optimism Quotes

A Select Collection of Optimism Quotes

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Muhammad Ali said, "If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you." Funny, but true! If you are an optimist and like to look at the brighter side of life, then you have a greater chance for success.

Rabindranath Tagore
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Dr. Jonas Salk
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Katherine Mansfield
I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy... you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Charlotte Bronte
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Chinese Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Muhammed Ali
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Unknown Author
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

William Arthur Ward
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Calvin Coolidge
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

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