Optimist Quotes · Page 17

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

— Robert Breault

Nothing worries the pessimist like the optimist who says there is nothing to worry about.

— Vikrant Parsai

“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”

— Jenny Han

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of…

— Robert Breault

“I'm optimistic about the possibility of having a positive attitude”

— Stuart Blythe

I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.

— Anna Quindlen

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

— Winston Churchill

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

— Bill Gates

“Oh, it was wicked of me to make him the troublesome thing I was. He should stay always what he was, the…

— V.C. Andrews

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

— Harry S Truman

I used to pessimistically think I was going to die alone, but now I optimistically know I'm going to die hoping to…

— Dana Gould

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and…

— Helen Caldicott

I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest,…

— Terry Wogan

“Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.”

— C. JoyBell C

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or…

— Domhnall Gleeson

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list,…

— Phyllis McGinley

Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

— Christian D. Larson

“Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.”

— Robert Brault

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

— Randy Pausch

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

— Jules Renard

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

— Bruce Kent

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

— Helen Keller

Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm an optimist, and I'll stay in situations for much longer than I should, just thinking that they'll work themselves out.

— Will Forte

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

— Shimon Peres

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I love optimism but most times reality isn't all optimistic and sometimes we have to say things the way they appear to…

— Terry Mark

An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.

— Nateman

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

— Ken MacLeod

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Nishan Panwar

“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)”

— Saloma Miller Furlong

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

— Elon Musk

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

— Will Rogers

I got some hope but I'm also realistic. I got some thoughts but nothing real prolific.

— Goldhouse

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

— Norman Foster

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

— Al Gore

The optimistic things to do here in this world are to reflect, learn from our mistakes and try again.

— Senoraroy

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

— Christian D. Larson

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

— Edward Abbey