For instance, if an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. "Optimist" is a word which here refers to a person.who thinks pleasant thoughts about nearly everything.Christopher Peterson, American Psychologist, ISSN 0003-066X, January 2000, p.Despite the cautions just raised, there is abundant reason to believe that optimism – big, little, and in between – is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.Frederick Langbridge (1849–1923), A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts.Two men look out through the same bars:.Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement nothing can be done without hope.While this sentence has been attributed to Keller several times, Keller experts at the American Federation for the Blind in New York City have never been able to find it. Cornwell, Yonkers, New York, reported in Walter Fogg, One Thousand Sayings of History (1929), p. Attributed to Helen Keller, inscription in autograph album of Lafayette E.Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.Eric Idle song written for the film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979).Always look on the bright side of life.Joel Hawes, as quoted in Thoughts On The Business of Life at."I cannot" never accomplished anything: "I will try" has wrought wonders. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. You may be whatever you resolve to be.Don't ever become a pessimist … a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.Hale, who founded the first club in Boston, Massachusetts, later became chaplain to the United States Senate. The first Lend a Hand Club was founded in 1871, followed by the incorporation of a league of clubs, the Lend a Hand Society, in 1891. Edward Everett Hale, motto of the Lend a Hand Society.Mahatma Gandhi, quoted in Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Vol.I am an irrepressible optimist, but I always base my optimism on solid facts.
Winston Churchill, speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London (9 November 1954).For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.He is ready to smash the whole universe for the sake of itself. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence? Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist? Is he enough of a pagan to die for the world, and enough of a Christian to die to it? In this combination, I maintain, it is the rational optimist who fails, the irrational optimist who succeeds. No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on.James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion (1926), Horvendille, in Book Six : In the Sylan's House, Ch.For men dare not face the universe with no better backing than their own resources all men that live, and that go perforce about this world like blundering lost children whose rescuer is not yet in sight, have a vital need to believe in this sustaining legend about the Redeemer: and the wickedness and the foolishness of no man can avail against the fond optimism of mankind. No matter how you strive against that legend, it will conquer: no matter what you may do or suffer, my doomed Guivric, your saga will be recast until it conforms in everything to the legend begotten by the terrified imaginings of a lost child.
Your sagas in the end must all be perverted and engulfed by the great legend about Manuel.
James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926), Book Four : Coth at Porutsa, Ch.The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.1971), on the chat show Live from Studio Five, Channel 5 (UK) television (18 November 2009) I came out of my mom’s stomach thinking I was going to own America.Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained : Embrace Change (2000).Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.Always look on the bright side of life - Eric Idle Sorted alphabetically by author or source
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