Optimist Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm an optimist.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I may be an optimist.

Well, I'm an optimist.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

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

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

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

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.