I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I'm to positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful and to determinate to be defeated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things. — Fritz Scholder Copy Share Image
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far so good!' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I disagree with the optimist. A person speaks the truth when angry - when they're caught off-guard and those hidden feelings just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of… — Mark Matousek Copy Share Image
Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the… — Thomas Buckner Copy Share Image
Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I'm used to being invisible these days. But I couldn't get what she'd said out of my head, about ordinary people doing… — Sarah Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
