Optimist Quotes

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

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

Fighters have to be optimists.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

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

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

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.

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

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

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

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.'

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.

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?

Let optimists rule the world.

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

I am fundamentally an optimist.

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.

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

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

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

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

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

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