Optimist Quotations

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

I am an optimist and have always been one.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.

I am an optimist of the first order.

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I am by nature a worried optimist ...

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.

PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

He seemed to be an optimist and remained an optimist. I heard that one of the last comments he made was that he said he was impressed with Coach O's recruiting and thought Ole Miss would have a good team next year.

This was a game to learn how we'd be without Luke. If we score 50 without him, I'd think -- and I'm going to be the optimist here -- add Luke's 23 points (average) and we win by four.

Joe met in here for many, many years with the Optimist Club, and he was on the board a long time. We mentioned this to him before he passed away, and he said he was very, very honored.

We all played on the same Optimist (Baseball) team together, and I think we played on the same basketball team. Pretty much, we've played just about every sport together.

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

I'm nothing if not an optimist.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

The pessimist borrows trouble? the optimist lends encouragement.

The optimist would say we're in the early stage of a broad rally, the pessimist would say this is a dead-cat bounce and markets are going to head lower as oil heads toward $50 a barrel.

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and thepessimist fears this is true.

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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

And when thinking about it, not everyone's an optimist quite yet.

The state of Texas, the nation, isn't prepared for what's going to happen with diabetes we're in for a rocky road if we don't figure out in the next decade or so how to prevent this. I'm an optimist I think we'll figure it out.

A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties

Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six months presidency is either an optimist or naive, ... judge us at the end of the presidency.

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

I'm not a starry-eyed optimist about human rights or other issues in North Korea,

I'm hoping that we can work things out for all parties. I'm an optimist with that. I certainly can understand their frustration. We've been in this for a long time, and I'm optimistic that we can work with our private schools to come up with a compromise that will work for all parties.

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat.

I'm an optimist and think California does have a bright future,

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.

I really am an optimist for the future of this city.

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

I am an optimist by nature. But I have to admit, it's getting kind of scary.

He's a real estate guy from Detroit. He's a black man who is a big-time philanthropist who does a lot with Optimist Clubs and churches. He's a real neat guy.

Gerald is the eternal optimist who has what could be perceived as a handicap -he can't speak - but he figures out clever ways to communicate ideas so he doesn't let it stop him. He goes through life with rose-colored glasses and doesn't think 'I can't.' I think that's a great character to put out there for kids.

The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.

Fighters have to be optimists.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

Communists are the last optimists.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

I'm an optimist at heart.

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

Let optimists rule the world.

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

I'm a recovering optimist.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

I've always been an optimist.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

I would say Im an optimist by nature.