Optimist Encouraging Quotes

#1. Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. ("The Wife Of Ted Wickham")

A.E. Coppard

#2. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

Garry Kasparov

#3. But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#4. Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.

Terry Wogan

#5. UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With

James Allen

#6. For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Garry Kasparov

#7. I cannot expiate my sin, yet I am compelled to try. My mind will not let me rest. There must be something I could have done, some way I could have acted, something I could have changed to snatch victory from bitter defeat.

Juliet Marillier

#8. Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

Clint Eastwood