Optimist Quotes · Page 16

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

— Pacifiersucker

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

— Karl Kraus

My kids are resilient, I'm resilient, and I guess I am an optimist.

— Adina Porter

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

— Robin Sharma

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

— Diablo Cody

Those who only see in black and white have very little grey matter.

— Jeff Rosenspan

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.…

— Bill Ayers

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled…

— Henry Rollins

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just…

— Hans Rosling

“With my simple engineering mind I was throughout optimistic and, therefore, carried the project through. I was naive enough to believe in…

— Nina Fedoroff

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window…

— John McGahern

“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's…

— Trent Reznor

I'm a very optimistic person, woman, mother and singer. And at the same time, I'm very realistic when I look at other…

— Lara Fabian

By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below).…

— Robert Barron

“If you have more good days than bad, you might be an optimist. If you roll out of bed in the morning…

— Jeffrey Michael

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

— Alice Herz-Sommer

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

— Rachael Yamagata

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

— William Arthur Ward

“The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think…

— Amit Kalantri

“The pessimist says, ‘It can’t get any worse!’ And the optimist replies, ‘Oh yes it can!”

— Madeleine Urban

I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

— Theodore von Karman

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

— Spike Lee

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

— Mark Twain

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

— Phyllis McGinley

I always like to have a glimmer of hopefulness, even in collapse.

— Gord Downie

“Strive to be a person of action, good deeds and a willing vessel of hope.”

— Germany Kent

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of…

— Sandra Bernhard

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

— Winston S. Churchill

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

— Larry Kramer

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

— William Arthur Ward

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

— Laurence J. Peter

I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.

— Kofi Annan

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

— Pierre Trudeau

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

— Carl Sandburg

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

— Robert Breault

It is better to be an optimist (a positive-minded person) because being a pessimist will get you nowhere.

— Melchor Lim

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

— Neil Peart