Optimist Quotes · Page 15

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

— William Arthur Ward

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

— Will Rogers

I am to positive to be doubtful too optimistic too be fearful and too determined too be defeated

— Anonymous

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed

— Kin Hubbard

“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.”

— Paulo Coelho

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

— Anonymous

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

— Helen Keller

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff,…

— Amanda Holden

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a…

— Franz Grillparzer

I think the best way to quickly describe my personality is that I'm a maximizer rather than a satisficer, i.e. I want…

— James Holzhauer

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this…

— Ted Cruz

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to…

— Anonymous

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live…

— Christian D. Larson

I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always…

— Howard Jacobson

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my…

— Samantha Hunt

I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy…

— Eva Longoria

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about…

— Zig Ziglar

The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do…

— Jodi Picoult

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree…

— Ariel Gore

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity…

— Amy Chua

“I’m a pessimist of the human condition, as a rule, but contemplating the future and how the Carpenter kids could contribute to…

— Jim Butcher

This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all…

— Swami Vivekananda

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

— Henry Rollins

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a…

— Clay Aiken

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

— Colin Mochrie

I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

— Taylor Swift

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

— George Santayana

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

— Carl Rogers

I try to make the best out of every possible situation. Also, I'm an eternal optimist.

— John Havlicek

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

— Roger Scruton

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

— Robert Breault

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

— Philippe Cousteau, Jr

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

— Stephen Hawking

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

— Peter Ustinov

I'm an eternal optimist. I've no regrets. I've people who love me. I've a wonderful life. I'm grateful for what I have.

— Zeenat Aman

I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.

— Julia Davis

All outcomes in our lives are a mix of our actions and circumstances

— Senoraroy

From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.

— Eduardo Galeano