Optimist Quotes

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

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

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

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

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

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

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

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

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 have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Well, I'm an optimist.

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

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

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

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

I'm an optimist.

I'm an optimist.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

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

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

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

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

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.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

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.

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