Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

optimism is a disease

Robert Louis Stevenson

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Sarah Dessen

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Samuel Johnson

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Karl Popper

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

Oswald Spengler

Optimism is cowardice.

Oscar Hammerstein II

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

William Hazlitt

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

Epictetus

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Mohandas Gandhi

Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Adolf Hitler

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Confucius

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

Michel de Montaigne

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

Markus Zusak

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.