Optimist Quotes

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

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.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

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.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.