Optimist Quotes

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

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

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

A pessimist sees only 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.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

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

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

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

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

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.