Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
-- Nicholas M. Butler
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When things are hopeless, people have a tendency to just give up and surrender. Often, this hopelessness leads to negative consequences. It saps one of energy needed to continue. After people give up, they get trampled upon and treated as victims or worse.
Optimism, on the other hand, helps people have positive attitudes about what they do, what they believe. Even in the face of overwhelming odds and an overpowering force, being optimistic give people the courage they need to continue and to keep moving forward. Being optimistic is no guarantee of neither success nor victory, but lack of optimism guarantees failure and loss.
Being optimistic gives people the energy to pursue their dreams and to move toward their goals. Without that optimism, they end up with the energy and motivation of a sack of potatoes.
Some Information about Nicholas M. Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, US on 1862-April-2. He died in Paterson, New Jersey, US on 1947-December-7.
Nicholas M. Butler was an educator, a philosopher, and a diplomat. He is best known as president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945 as well as sharing the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams.
His long association with Columbia University began in the late 1870s when it was still known as Columbia College; it would switch from college to university in 1896. Butler earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1882. In 1883 he earned his Master's Degree. In 1884 he earned his PhD.
In 1885 Butler went to Europe to study in Paris and Berlin. It was during this period that he became friends with Elihu Root. This life-long friendship led Butler to meeting Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, future Presidents of the United States. He returned to the United States in the fall of 1885, when he joined the Philosophy department at Columbia College.
In 1887 he was a co-founder of the New York School for the Training of Teachers. He was also its president. This institution became affiliated with Columbia University, and it would later be renamed to its better known name, Teachers College at Columbia University.
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