Optimist Quotes

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

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

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.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Well, I'm an optimist.

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

I'm an optimist.

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.

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

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.