Optimist Quotes · Page 19

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

— Rondal Partridge

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

— Narendra Modi

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

— Mike Dirnt

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

— Denis Hayes

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to…

— Jordan Gavaris

“as far as a bottle of piss is concerned, are you more of an optimist if you think it’s halfempty?—and”

— Anonymous

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

— Ada Leverson

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I am a sanguinely optimistic person, I see the bright side, the silver lining, a half-full glass. Hence, my day is always…

— Joseph V. Angeles

“He was, in his heart, an optimist, and he didn’t try to hide it. And I admired him for it. I was…

— Bella Forrest

“Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’…

— Steven Galloway

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their…

— Michael Pollan

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency,…

— John Derbyshire

“We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken…

— Jeanette Lee

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm…

— Owen Wilson

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

— Al Gore

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

— Abraham Lincoln

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

— Ellen Goodman

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

— Anonymous

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

— Benjamin Graham

“Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist? Neither. A fool.”

— Jay Asher

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

— Ouida

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

— Walter Winchell

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

— Richard Jefferson

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

— Preston Manning

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

— Zig Ziglar

“If I have a pocket fun of rainbows am I an optimist, or a guy with wet pants and really large pockets?”

— Neil Leckman

“You can get what you want in life. You must reach out with all your heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

— Kin Hubbard

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

— Jesse Michaels

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

— Nick Cave

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

— Rene Descartes

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

— Nelson Mandela

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

— Tracy Letts

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half…

— Josiah Stamp

“I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improblable dreams.”

— Matt Smith

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

— Karel Reisz

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

— Anonymous

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

— Peter Benchley