Optimist Quotes

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

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

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

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

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

I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

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 in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

I'm nothing if not an optimist.

I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.

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

The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

I've always been an optimist.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

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

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

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

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

I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

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

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

I'm a recovering optimist.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

I am by nature a worried optimist.

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a lot of our fellow citizens have.

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

Communists are the last optimists.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is a researcher's dream.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.