Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

“The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.”

The cycle of optimism and euphoria leading to greed, fear and capitulation, giving way to hope and building back to optimism, drives the expansion and contraction of our financial world in a market cycle of collective human emotion.

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.

She would put her “naïve American optimism” toward making herself indispensable to him, and she’d win him. Because naïve American optimism beat out English cynicism any day.

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