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Quotations about optimism

Joan RiversI have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

 - Joan Rivers

Tags:   opportunities  optimism  

Dwight EisenhowerEngineers build for the future, not merely for the needs of men but for their dreams as well. Thus, inherently, the engineers work is a fearless optimism that life will go forward, and that the future is worth working for.

 - Dwight Eisenhower

Tags:   engineering  future  needs  optimism  

Mark TwainThe man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

 - Mark Twain

Tags:   knowledge  optimism  pessimism  

Edith WhartonIn spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

 - Edith Wharton

Tags:   ageing  change  curiosity  optimism