Sunday, December 7th, 1941 - Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde A team is a reflection of its leadership. - Unknown Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Powell Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well. - Danielle Pierre An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. - Ring Lardner An optimist is simply a pessimist with no job experience. - Dilbert Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. - Ambrose Bierce Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. - Robert G. Allen Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. - Norman Cousins I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill Optimist: someone who tells you to cheer up when things are going his way. - Edward Murrow Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. - Cyril Connolly The visionary leader is an optimist, for no pessimist ever made a great leader. - William W Francis An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. - George Jean Nathan At the sum of all fears, the only thing that is painted... is a reflection of you. - Lionel Suggs My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. - Phyllis Diller Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. - Brian Tracy Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. - Brian Tracy An optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Unknown The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. - Dwight D Eisenhower That the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from heaven. - Hideki Tojo The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sail. - John C Maxwell Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. - Mary Lou Retton The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. - Peter Ustinov The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. - Peter F Drucker An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. - Sonia Sotomayor In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime. - Hiro Murai Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it's more like a cha-cha. - Robert Brault Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary - it's an act of infinite optimism. - Gilda Radner To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. - Unknown Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?", New York Mayor Al Smith: "Do we now?" - Franklin D Roosevelt If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. - Oscar Wilde see also History, Military & Nationality Sections British League of Pessimists Texas School Forced to Remove Charlie Brown Christmas Poster |
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