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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

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.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

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

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Optimism is the key.

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.