Optimist Quotes · Page 21

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

— Eric Sevareid

I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

— Heather Brooke

I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air

— Gunnar Staalesen

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

— Dennis Miller

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

— Thomas Friedman

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

— Alison Sudol

I'm a very optimistic, happy-go-lucky person, but I definitely know what I want and I'd do anything to get to that point.

— Fearne Cotton

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

— Craig Venter

“I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I…

— Sanhita Baruah

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about…

— Kevin Rudd

My father is undoubtedly one of the nicest, kindest, smartest, and warm-hearted people I know. He is truly a light that shines…

— Jenna Morasca

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I…

— Julie Gayet

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like…

— Michael Morpurgo

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist.…

— Harvey Mackay

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is…

— Ron Currie Jr

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've…

— Jude Law

I'm dementedly optimistic, and whoever I'm with usually feels they have to balance my more wayward optimism.

— Alexander Armstrong

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

— George Meyer

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side

— Molly Ivins

“Pessimist, are you?” “I’m a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.”

— Charles Martin

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

— Christian D. Larson

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

— Nick Bostrom

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

— Sandra Bullock

You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're…

— Ted Danson

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

— Winston Churchill

“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.”

— Karl Kraus

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

— Jacques Barzun

I'm not a glass-half-full optimist. I'm a glass-overflowing optimist.

— Marc Randolph

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

— Albert Einstein

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

— Steve Aylett

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

— Jean Rostand

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

— Anonymous

I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

— Anonymous

I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.

— Matt Mullenweg

I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.

— Lewis Mumford

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

— Betty White

Ive got as much hope as the chances of a rain drop not hitting the ground

— Alyssa Herring

I am, by nature, not optimistic: my fellow drag queens would probably describe me as a pessimist.

— Violet Chachki

“Napier grinned. "I'm flattered." "I'm sure you are," Colt said. "You've always been optimistic in your interpretations.”

— Emory Sharplin

“Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.”

— Noel DeJesus