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Quotes: Optimism

A Select Collection of Quotes: Optimism

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

Dr. Joyce Brothers: Quotes: Optimism
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Robert Brault: Quotes: Optimism
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser-in case you thought optimism was dead.

Robert Browning: Quotes: Optimism
The best is yet to be.

Mark Twain: Quotes: Optimism
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Unknown Author: Quotes: Optimism
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that an optimist thinks this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.

Bertrand Russell: Quotes: Optimism
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Earl Nightingale: Quotes: Optimism
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

George Shultz: Quotes: Optimism
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Vic Braden: Quotes: Optimism
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

George Will: Quotes: Optimism
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

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