#optimism

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#optimism #pessimism #change

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#experience #lose #optimism #win #experience

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#optimism #pessimism #wonder #inspirational

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#home #hometown #new-york-city #new-yorker #optimism

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#optimism #silver-lining #inspirational

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. ↗

— Earle Brown

#creation #creative #degree #general #generosity

Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..' I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over ↗

— Josh Stern

#crying #dr-seuss #experience #happiness #joy

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#materialism #optimism #education

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american spirit #emerson #energy #moral #optimism

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#emotions #optimism #pessimism #thinking #attitude