Top 20 Quotes About Optimism And Realism
#1. Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.
Wes Fesler
#2. The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
Timothy Keller
#3. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
Criss Jami
#4. Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism ... [because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.
Price Pritchett
#5. Some people see the liquid and thing half full. Others only see the air and think half empty. Sometimes I get the sense Chatham sees it all, which is kind of terrifying. I don't know if I want him to see me--the real me.
McCall Hoyle
#6. Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.
Terry Eagleton
#7. Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.
C. JoyBell C.
#8. We are not men. We are women. We feel more deeply, express our emotions more frequently, and get moody monthly. It's normal. It's nature's way. And we don't necessarily have to medicate away the essence of who we are to make others more comfortable.
Julie Holland
#9. The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing
Nancy Peters
#10. Willa Jean, pleased to have her grandmother on her side, set a red checker on top of a black checker. "Your turn," she said to Ramona as if she were being generous.
Beverly Cleary
#11. If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
Theodore White
#12. Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn't set policy ...
James S.A. Corey
#13. Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for.
NikNak
#14. Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.
Ron Suskind
#15. Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.
Narayanananda Swami.
#16. In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.
T.K. Coleman
#17. Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.
Stephen King
#18. Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
Ron Fournier
#19. Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.
T.K. Coleman
#20. Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil ... Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.
Richard M. Weaver
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