What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Optimism is the key.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Optimism can be relearnt.
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