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Quotations by Subject: Optimism
(Related Subjects: Cynicism, Confidence)
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.: Colin Powell (1937 - )
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.: Paul Fussell
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.: Robert G. Allen
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
An optimist is the human personification of spring.: Susan J. Bissonette


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