Optimist Quotes

I'm a genetic optimist.

— Jeff Bezos

I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.

— Alice Waters

I'm a natural optimist.

— Bozoma Saint John

I'm an optimistic guy.

— Michael Douglas

I have an exhausting optimism.

— Michele Lamy

I'm a huge optimist.

— Anonymous

I'm a pessimist.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I am an optimist about America.

— Anthony Lewis

I am a natural optimist, as entrepreneurs tend to be.

— Tulsi Tanti

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

— Morley

I'm the eternal optimist. That's who I am.

— John Dorsey

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

— Eyedea

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

— Sarah McLachlan

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I am pessimistically optimistic.

— Anna Madeley

I'm not a sad bloke. I'm an optimist.

— Jonathan Woodgate

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came…

— Phil Anselmo

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

— Ray Farabee

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

— Bill Vaughan

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested...

— Nelson Mandela

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

— Anonymous

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

— Don Marquis

“You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.

— Jim Ramstad

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are…

— Georges Bernanos

“But love makes you an optimist", she said. "That is what love is. It is hope for the future. Love doesn't want…

— Karina Halle

“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us…

— Brandon Sanderson

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical…

— Todd Solondz

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of…

— Stephen King

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's more like a…

— Anonymous

Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door…

— Stephen King

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am…

— Vaclav Havel

“Even in your closest friendships, you're alone. Maybe it's your best friend who, in fact, reminds you, just by making it her…

— Lauren Fox

“His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it before? You have? It's not going…

— Eudora Welty

I'm definitely a techno-optimist. I think we can do amazing things. But in my experience, if a thing has great potential, there…

— Margrethe Vestager

Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct…

— H. P. Lovecraft

For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things…

— Thomas Ligotti

Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen.…

— Dale Carnegie