I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through.… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
I don't think optimism is always the best quality for an actor, in the same way you wouldn't want a super-optimist to… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“―Look. This room is the Seal Room. See the big picture of the seal? And that room is the Pony Room.‖ ―Is… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“I have always been an optimist and I tell them that if they have a day-dream, then follow it through but not… — Tim Bouquet Copy Share Image
Failure doesn't mean you are a loser. But this just a beginning of a great opportunity that will soon come your way.… — Jovelee Jeanne Copy Share Image
“I wrote to my son. ‘Be a pessimist,’ I advised Joseph on his first birthday on 21 November. ‘It is the safest,… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
In fact, I'm happy to go on record as saying that the ability to create a reality distortion field is right up… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“It was a lot to hope for, but Holden was an unapologetic optimist. Give people the information they need. Trust them to… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback,… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis… — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You know, sir, this operation is not, in any hands, a hundred percent predictable?" "Well, I'm an optimist." "I didn't know there… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“I don't deal with people who have no goals and no vision. If that sounds like you, stay away from me. I'm… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think I have more optimism than they do and I think I have a better vision for the country than [Barack… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image