The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Optimist

Posted by Shawn Altman on May 8, 2013 in The Zen Of Success

strongemOne of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge and enlightenment is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past, and who were generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding./em/strong

A pessimist and an emoptimist/em, so much the worse; so much the better. – strongJean de La Fontaine/strongstrong
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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An emoptimist/em is one who hopes they are. – strongChauncey Depew/strong

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an emoptimist/em is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. – strongHarry S. Truman/strong

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an emoptimist/em sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – strongWinston Churchill/strong

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an emoptimist/em. – strongElbert Hubbard/strongstrong
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Always the eternal emoptimist/em, President Reagan instilled confidence and emoptimism /emat a time both were in short supply in our country. – strongJim Ramstad/strongstrong
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An extreme emoptimist/em is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn’t take his advice. – strongJohn McCarthy/strong

An emoptimist/em is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won’t have a hydrant beside it. – strongJules Renard/strongstrong
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An emoptimist /emis a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. – strongGeorge Jean Nathan/strongstrong
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An emoptimist/em is a fellow who believes what’s going to be will be postponed. – strongKin Hubbard/strong

An emoptimist/em is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. – strongRing Lardner/strong

An emoptimist /emis a guy that has never had much experience. – strongDon Marquis/strong

An emoptimist/em is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind. – strongAlbert Schweitzer/strong

An emoptimist /emis a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. – strongIrv Kupcinet/strong

An emoptimist/em is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. – strongWalter Winchell/strongstrong
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An emoptimist /emmay see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? – strongRene Descartes/strong

An emoptimist/em stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. – strongBill Vaughan/strong

Being an emoptimist/em after you’ve got everything you want doesn’t count. – strongKin Hubbard/strong

Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an emoptimist,/em but an emoptimist/em has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. – strongRobert A. Heinlein/strong

He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an emoptimist /emand Dick Nixon wasn’t. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners. – strongLyn Nofziger/strong