A Quote by John Ortberg

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
American - Priest
Born: May 5, 1957

Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

Rick Hillier

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

E. M. Forster

It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

Lemmy

Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.

Cornel West

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

Mac O'Grady

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

Edward C. Prescott

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.

Vince Poscente

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

I care deeply for Patty. He has the biggest heart and an infectious laugh when he laughs. He has a great sense of humor. You just hope that you're allowed to have a friend like Patrick Marleau because it really is special.

Joe Thornton

Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

Brian Houston

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

Price Pritchett

The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.

W. E. B. Du Bois

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.