Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Choices Quotes

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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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.

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

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Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

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Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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