Quotes by Optimism For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. Hermann Hesse optimism contentment class Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome Hilary Thayer Hamann optimism outcomes life-is If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish. Henry David Thoreau optimism anxiety shoes Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use. Horace Fletcher optimism medicine use But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow optimism dawn night Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. Howard Mumford Jones optimism progress energy We must cultivate our garden. Horace Walpole optimism garden responsibility In spite of all their kind some elements of worth Hugh MacDiarmid optimism here-and-there elements Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous. Hyman Rickover optimism stupidity stupid So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry? Henry David Thoreau optimism evil travel The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose. Immanuel Kant optimism heart believe If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.] Isaac Bashevis Singer optimism anticipation chance I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. J. G. Ballard optimism political order If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart. Jack Layton optimism heart ideas Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you. J. R. R. Tolkien optimism goes-on may I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you. Jake Gyllenhaal optimism one-day promise Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that. Jalen Rose optimism team basketball Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label. James Branch Cabell optimism optimistic labels Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized. Henry David Thoreau optimism imagination men Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We should use military strikes against ISIS when they threaten the Shia areas or Baghdad. We need to accelerate very rapidly, and we have ways to do it, aid to the Syrians, and we need to be more active, with results, not simply inputs. That is absolutely important right now, because people are questioning our will, not our capabilities. James Franklin Jeffrey optimism military thinking «7891011121314151617»
