I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far so good!' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. — Julian Tuwim Copy Share Image
I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Be sure and confident that the world offers plenty of opportunities for everyone to succeed. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Of all the pessimistic people, I am the most optimistic. I look forward to looking down on all the people looking up… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try"… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are… — David Landes Copy Share Image
I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
“I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that… — David Agus Copy Share Image
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Copy Share Image
