The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Rene Descartes

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Robert G. Allen

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Paul J. Meyer

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

G. B. Stern

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

Susan J. Bissonette

In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Daniel L. Reardon

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Raymond Aron

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

James Reston

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Robert Brault

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Paul Fussell

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.

Richard M. Devos

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

In Detroit, there is a focus on how things used to be. In Indianapolis, there's probably an optimism about what the world will be.

Ned Hill

Knowledge, optimism and inspiration in people living with cancer.

Terry Murphy

Stocks are looking up due to broader optimism about the U.S. economy. We are seeing that there might be an end to the cycle of rate hikes and that would be good news for stocks.

Jonathan Monk

This forward-looking index indicates broad optimism that the expansion of manufacturing activity will continue throughout the year.

Donald A. Norman

We generally just think of optimism and pessimism as just feelings and emotions. But they're the simple things that make a huge difference in our health.

Larry Dossey

There's optimism on the general business environment for the next year, and that's why tech is rallying.

Warren Simpson

Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism.

Alan Doss

[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Voltaire

It gives some room for optimism that wasn't there before.

Jesse Brown

There is great optimism in the market just now, especially about the banks, so people are picking up cheap deals for the long term.

Chen Huiqin

This year seems better, and optimism seems to be the name of the game.

Daniel Morgan

The new Manpower survey, I think, reflects the optimism in San Antonio.

Keith Phillips

We dream of a province where the values of co-operation and caring, optimism and hope are the foundation of an unbreakable social fabric.

Lorne Calvert

Enthusiasm and with optimism.

Randall Tobias

There's definitely optimism that there's a couple guys who can get up to that 15- to 20-goal, maybe even 25-goal plateau. The thing with this year's team is that there's not going to be pressure on that one guy.

Pete Macarthur

I think there's reason for optimism.

Trevor Hoffman

I know his optimism is quite good.

Mark Davis

I have a little bit of optimism, mostly hope. I don't want to go backward, I know that.

Shaun Rinier

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Nitin Nohria

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Roberto Rossellini

The pleasing business trend in the first two months of 2006 justifies our optimism.

Werner Wenning

Might put a somewhat more favorable spin on the news and give investors some more tangible basis for optimism.

Rick Sherlund

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Robin Williams

The leaders last year were East Bay companies. And they've had the best results, which reinforces our analysis that everything starts with the optimism of the entrepreneur.

Steve Buster

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Arnold Bennett

Jack Pratt has the character, the leadership skills and the qualities to inspire confidence and optimism.

Andrew Sorensen

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Nicholas Murray Butler

We are going to see more small falls for two to three months and then some summer optimism.

Sharda Persaud

The Fed is hanging onto its long-term view. Some will say this is just excessive optimism.

Tony Crescenzi

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

I don't share your optimism. We can talk about this for 19 hours, because I get pretty passionate about it.

Ron Cowen

There is increasing optimism in the state.

Keitaro Matsuda

Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

There's some optimism available, but obviously it's a competitive market.

Kevin Kelley

We played pretty well down there. Played very well as a matter of fact. They just made a lot of threes. I?d say more optimism than pessimism. We know we played pretty well and we can do it again.

Bill Leatherman

Yen buying seems to be stalling after an initial round of optimism about the Sept. 11 election receded.

Tomoko Fujii

There is growing optimism about the Fed's interest-rate hikes coming to an end. That would mean consumption in the U.S. and the housing market won't be damaged, and that sort of confidence is supporting stocks.

Hirofumi Kasai

There's a general feeling of optimism over the fall in interest rates and that's helping to boost the value of shares.

Marcelo Mesquita

I think he is mistaken in his optimism.

Patrick Clawson

It could go either way at this point. There is some pessimism and some optimism. It's going to be interesting the whole way around.

Jon Karkow

These forecasts are higher than in the previous survey, particularly for the first half of 2006, suggesting increasing optimism among the forecasters.

Philadelphia Fed

There are very important structural changes occurring that will set the stage for important improvements in the world economy. There's a great deal of optimism in the air and a great deal of opportunities.

David Hale

I'm in fighting trim. I'm full of energy and optimism and I'm ready to take on this challenge.

Brent Edison

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Antonio Gramsci

Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems.

Alexander Alexeyev

There is now a case for qualified optimism about the industry's financial performance.

Brian Pearce

The optimism in the film is really based on my own experience of coming to America.

Roger Donaldson

The construction of our new headquarters reflects both the optimism with which we view the energy business and our commitment to this area. We expect our company to grow, and we believe that our growth will be an important driver in the growth of the region.

J. Brett Harvey

The market has already factored in a certain degree of optimism about economic improvement and was getting top-heavy above 18,000.

Masatoshi Kikuchi

It's a gutsy move. Embedded in it is a tremendous amount of optimism.

Stephen Wessler

Businesses are showing increased optimism in their hiring plans.

Katherine Spencer Lee

It's another case of euro-optimism being dashed by events.

Tony Norfield

There's a feeling that U.S. inflation may be under control, and this helped U.S. markets. The optimism may spread on to the opening of European markets.

Francisco Salvador

I have never heard such optimism, and such positive noise about growth and development in India.

Martin Sorrell

Black Males Left Behind. One reason for maintaining optimism is that so few serious attempts to help poor fathers have been made.

Ron Haskins

I'm really excited for the NHL. It's just time, after so much negativity for so long, for optimism. It's almost as if a brick home has been destroyed and been rebuilt with superior bricks.

Bill Clement

There is no optimism there, ... realistic.

Chetan Ahya

There's some optimism that some of the larger vessels might be running soon, but I hate to put a timetable on that.

Brian Turmail

Messages into the future is something that people have always sought to do. In a way, it's a statement of optimism.

Paul Saffo

It comes from a time of optimism based on technology. It is a fake; it's clearly not an artifact.

Peter Franck

There's some earnings optimism.

Som Dasgupta

For some reason, I just loved it. There was a sense of optimism and joy in the 1920s.

Sandy Wilson

I'm more encouraged because of the effort of the ordinary guys - the fans - to get this done. I have a heightened optimism that we're going to get something accomplished.

Henry Morgan

Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Paula Nelson

It's a signal of increasing confidence and optimism in how the auto side is functioning.

Ursula Moran

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

For the moment we do not have a reason for optimism, because we have yet to see what the court will rule on Sunday.

Dimitar Tsanchev

There's no getting around having to say the honest statement, that from everything we know or from everything the doctors know, this person will die. That (still) allows for the eternal optimism of hope and a miracle.

Joe Ferry

It was a discouraging verdict, but we think there's plenty of reason for optimism on an appeal.

Bill Ryan

There was clearly some sort of burst of optimism that occurred late last year. Gas prices were falling and it appeared there might be a democratic government formed in Iraq. It appears those hopes have been dashed.

Phil Trounstine

I don't think there's any question that at this given time, they are viable. Going forward, there is cause for optimism.

Dan Benjamin

There's a lot of optimism in the sector and not a lot of pessimism.

David Land

As we consider $81.9 billion dollars for the continuation in our effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, if we look for optimism, it surrounds us everywhere.

Johnny Isakson

There hasn't been any reason for optimism for months, so there's certainly none now.

David Dow

I think the optimism is based on reality.

Gerardo Copca

For the last couple of months there has been a buildup of economic optimism in Japan. Any evidence the pace of expansion may slow can have a negative impact on the yen.

Michael Metcalfe

It's a tug-of-war between investors choosing to pocket gains after the Nikkei surged to its highest level since August 2000 yesterday and those chasing bargains on optimism about a steady economic recovery.

Hideo Mizutani

That gives me tremendous encouragement and optimism for the human race in general, that people choose to go off and do their own things.

Bruce Dickinson

It is a validation of the optimism that the nuclear industry has of the economic viability of nuclear power.

Marilyn Kray

Koizumi's victory triggered a rally in stocks and fueled optimism about an escape from deflation.

Jun Ishii

Her spirit and her optimism are organic to the American spirit, and that's what this show is about.

Martin Charnin

There's reason for optimism. A lot is likely to happen in the next 12 months.

Dan Popowics

I was pleased with what I saw. We're not out of the woods yet, but it certainly looked, acted and felt better than it did last night. I say that with guarded optimism.

Jeff Porter

I trust deeply that my mild character and optimism will be a stronger weapon than blows.

Donald Tusk

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The labor market is improving, optimism is improving and spirits will be higher this holiday season. Sales are going to better than OK, they're going to be good.

Paul Kasriel

We saw some bargain hunting today after Monday's excessive drop. But with so many negative external factors out there, we should find no real optimism from these gains.

Koichi Ogawa

There's a lot of optimism that the interest rate hikes have slowed the economy.

Tom Connor

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

Anne Perry

This is a technical adjustment; it's too soon to talk of optimism. Some stocks showed healthy gains but they were the ones that lost out most.

Marcos Basaglia

I do not rule out optimism.

James Leach

Our take is really cautious optimism, the business is really building momentum. We're still encouraged by the U.S. revenue outlook.

Donald Blair

Optimism seems actually to change the nervous system and boost the immune response, just as being gloomy depresses it.

Shelley Taylor

Optimism abounds on the market. Retail investors expect an influx of funds from institutions and the government to lure overseas-listed blue chips back to mainland markets.

Li Zhi

There's optimism in the marketplace that the Fed will be finished for the rest of the year.

Mike Boss

There's nothing like a growing company in terms of optimism. But once it stagnates, it's a good sign you better start looking.

Ron Krannich

There's optimism we will see quite good numbers out of Germany and any good data will encourage euro buying. The current level looks good to buy the euro.

Tetsu Aikawa

The benefits of optimism are actually striking. I've always been interested in optimism and how it helps people be more resilient.

Fred Gerhard

The bulk of the warnings season is out of the way and I think there's some optimism that the Nasdaq was able to hold 2,000 on Friday.

Bill Meehan

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Jim Leach

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise-whatever appeals to you.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

It's going to be challenging. There is some optimism out of our guys, and, hopefully, they feel good about themselves. When there are expectations, sometimes you forget about the little things, but hopefully these guys won't.

Paul Keyes

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Leni Riefenstahl

I think there's a little bit of optimism here today -- you can take one eye off Iraq and start to focus more on the economy and earnings.

James Park

It might. But that is an optimistic point of view. Optimism is not a good thing to base your financing on.

Eric Stuckey

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is ''man'' himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Edward Steichen

You can sense the genocide from 10 years ago, but there is still a sense of optimism and energy.

Eddie Loo

There was a shot of optimism from the Fed minutes and I think that's what has carried the market through so far.

Fred Peters

We found that dispositional optimism was also significantly related to a lower risk of cardiovascular death in women.

Erik Giltay