Realistic Optimism Quotes

#1. In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.

Francesco Clemente

#2. People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies.

Blair Warren

#3. A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.

T.K. Coleman

#5. We can only be really realistic after we have tried our optimism out.

Adam Phillips

#6. Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#7. How unnecessary," said Amy. "The child's morbid enough."
"All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace," said Randolph, and went right ahead.

Truman Capote

#8. Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Bill Crawford

#9. I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim, which is just as disgusting. Foie gras production is appalling - there's no excuse for selling it.

Joanna Lumley

#10. You can't tell me I matter and then leave like I don't.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#11. Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#12. Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

Vanna Bonta

#13. A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

George Eliot

#14. Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

T. S. Eliot

#15. You don't get a trophy after halftime. We don't look at the scoreboard until the end of the game.

Chip Kelly

#16. Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).

Claire

#17. Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld. I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be. And I think, as long as there's provision for the life of the mother, then that's something that should be done.

Rudy Giuliani

#18. I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

Lara Stone

#19. I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

Tom Rath