Talk:Optimism

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• People ask me, "Are you an optimist?" I say "I hope so!"
  • Bill Bailey, "Part Troll" stand-up tour (2004)

• The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
  • Havelock Ellis

• I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
  • Paul Fussell

• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
  • Helen Keller

• Optimism is true moral courage.
  • Ernest Shackleton

• Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.
  • Julian Simon

• Optimism is cowardice.
  • Oswald Spengler

• The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
  • Peter Ustinov

• Optimism is not a choice, it's a belief.
  • August Burns Red (band)