T. S. Eliot Quotes, Birthday Quotes, Optimism Quotes

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

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The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

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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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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

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

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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

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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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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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

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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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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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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

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My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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

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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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