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Optimism

«In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.»
«In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip»
«I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.»
Author: Earl Weaver | About: Optimism
«I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.»
«If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.»
«If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.»
«I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.»
«Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.»
«Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity»
«If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.»

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